Back to Basics

—By Kevin Drum

| Sat Aug. 29, 2009 7:35 AM PDT

Let's recap: the United States spends about twice as much on healthcare as any other developed nation in the world and in return receives just about the worst care.  Can someone remind me again why there's even a debate about whether we should put up with this?

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