`Best care in the world'.(Editorials)(Giuliani can't be describing U.S. health care system)(Editorial)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | November 4, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: The Register-Guard

For reasons that make less sense with every new study, access to affordable health care continues to be a political rather than a medical decision in the United States. As a result, for 47 million uninsured Americans, the opportunity to see a doctor is a matter of cold-hearted economic privilege rather than a human right guaranteed by a compassionate society.

That may constitute the "best health care system in the world" for Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, but for anyone who isn't independently wealthy - or ...

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