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A Compelling but Simplified Case for Health-Care Reform

By DAN MENDELSON

Hedrick Smith, a former New York Times reporter and author, has created a half-dozen PBS specials on politics, economics, foreign affairs, crime, and urban society. In Critical Condition, he tackles yet another weighty subject -- the nation's health-care system. As the program's title suggests, his diagnosis is grim; but the case merits a...

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