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Commentary: How has American health care gone so wrong?

It shouldn’ t be so hard to get the right treatments to the people who need them.

We all have bad weeks. Mine recently made me marvel at the astonishing dysfunction of our health care system. In calling out the system I intend no disrespect to the talented and heroic overachievers in nursing, pharmacy, medicine and the other providers who fight the system every day on behalf of our patients.

Despite such efforts, the sad but undeniable fact is that our health care system — the way the U.S. distributes and pays for health

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