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Health care excuses

From TAP, Ezra Klein on ten reasons why American health care is so bad. Henry Aaron on why healthcare reform has failed: To make it work, lawmakers need to understand the barriers that have blocked reform. From TNR, wrestling with the innovation question: Jonathan Cohn on the best case against universal health care. Health care excuses: The reality is that the best foreign health care systems do as well or better than the U.S. system, while costing far less money. From The Atlantic Monthly, the health-care crisis no candidate is addressing? Too many doctors. A review of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee. A review of Alternative Medicine? A History by Roberta Bivins.