“Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony.”
Otis Webb Brawley
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
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