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I am the Healthcare Sucker

The nine billionth example of American healthcare inefficiency, plus this week's healthcare news.

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Libby Watson
Jun 10, 2022
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Scores of patients and dentists paired up at the Remote Area Medical free clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee on February 2, 2019. (Getty)

A quick anecdote to start this week’s roundup: I went to a primary care doctor this week for the first time in a while. I needed a referral to UCLA’s psychiatry outpatient clinic—my neurologist had already given me one, bu…

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