In an interview, Rick Wolff analyzes the current debate over health care reform in the US in relation to the uniquely high costs of medical care and its relatively poor results. Generally accessible health care in the US is compared to that in most other wealthy industrial societies. Wolff identifies some of the key obstacles to changing and improving the US health care system.

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