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WSJ embraces universal health insurance

January 2, 2003 by Scott Rosenberg

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No, you weren’t hallucinating — that was an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, right before Christmas, arguing for universal health insurance – Find a healthy life on Amazon – The president of Johns Hopkins pointed out that the advent of genetic screening will make the old model of health insurance untenable, as insurance companies’ business imperative to refuse service to people who test positive for major disorders clashes with society’s moral imperative to provide health care for as broad a population as possible. “Genetic testing is health insurance’s iceberg.”
The piece is online here.

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