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The Health-care Crisis

July 2026
1min read

As a group health insurance broker, I have never read a clearer, more comprehensive analysis of America’s healthcare crisis as detailed in John Steele Gordon’s essay (“How America’s Health Care Fell 111,” May/June).

His proposed solutions for the current crisis, which are both modest and practical, contrast sharply with the unrealistic ones offered by both Democratic and Republican candidates.

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