Chris Hedges and Dr. Margaret Flowers Discuss How to Fix the Health Care System (Video)
Insurance companies pitting "patients and health professionals against each other" have led the U.S. into crisis, Flowers tells the Truthdig columnist.Insurance companies pitting “patients and health professionals against each other” have led to the health care crisis in the U.S., Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Baltimore-based pediatrician and congressional fellow with Physicians for a National Health Program, tells Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges on a recent episode of “On Contact.”
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