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The ethical issue of universal coverage—Professor Hsiao’s “first question”—was not part of the conversation.

But no other country relies on for-profit insurance companies to pay for basic health care.

But the 2010 reform law did little to reduce the fragmentation of American health care; if anything, it will give us a system that is even more complex.

DANIEL REID, AUTHOR OF THE TAO OF HEALTH, SEX, AND LONGEVITY AND THE TAO OF DETOX

But some Americans have been pressing their countrymen to deal with that “first question” as a foundation for building a new national health care system. Professor Uwe Reinhardt, the economist at Princeton University and global leader in the field of health care economics, argues that U.S. policy makers have deliberately avoided the moral question.

Hill genuinely cared about quality rail service and about public opinion.