What'll ya have?
Before choosing a plan to finance healthcare, we must decide whether we consider ourselves subscribers or patients, Mr. Hage says. And we each must decide how healthy we are, because that determines how much we're willing to pay for medical coverage, he adds. In the article, Mr. Hage describes two proposed financing approaches and tells why he thinks both of them miss the mark.
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
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