Day: June 20, 2006
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AlterNet: Jim Hightower: How to Fix Our Health Care Mess
How messed up is America’s health care system? Consider the case of the Leavitts. Anne and her husband Dixie, both in their 70s, got frazzled trying to work their way through the maddening maze of George W’s new prescription drug program, which compels seniors to choose among 1,400 competing drug-insurance schemes offered by 80 corporations.…