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		specialist on April 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s... Universal healthcare with a single payer is both least expensive and most effective option. Win-win.

refurb on April 22, 2014 [–]

Most effective if measured by life expectancy or child mortality (two very poor measurements of the quality of a health care system).

Not true if measured by outcomes with various forms of cancer (which I would argue are pretty good metrics).

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