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To the Editor: Blumenthal asserts in his Sounding Board article on health care reform (June 17 issue)¹ that the reason for the gap between evidence of poor care and the lack of political will to address it is that most Americans are satisfied with the status quo. But aggregated personal experience fails to motivate substantial political change, not because people are happy with the health care they receive, but for a deeper and simpler reason: most people are healthy most of the time. The explanation for the gap lies not in satisfaction with care, but in the difference between care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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