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- The New York Times - Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight President Obama recently summoned aides to the Oval Office to discuss a magazine article investigating why the border town of McAllen, Tex., was the country’s most expensive place for health care. The article became required reading in the White House, with Mr. Obama even citing it at a meeting with two dozen Democratic senators.
- The New Yorker - McAllen, Texas and the High Cost of Health Care Writer contrasts the high-cost health-care system in McAllen, Texas, with the lower-cost systems at the Mayo Clinic and in Grand Junction, Colorado. McAllen, Texas is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Only Miami spends more.
- Washington Post - In Colorado, a Sizable Schism on Health-Care Reform At a town hall meeting in Colorado, citizens state their concerns about healthcare, current and future.
- CNN Money - 'Underinsured' Americans may raise all health care costs As the recession pushes more Americans into the ranks of the 'underinsured' on top of more uninsured households, experts warn that it's a double-whammy on all consumers.
- The New Yorker - The Moral-Hazard Myth Commentary about the 'moral-hazard' theory behind America's failed health-care system. Several years ago, 2 Harvard researchers, Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle, set out to interview people without health-care coverage for a book they were writing, 'Uninsured in America'.