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As the debate over whether the United States has too few or too many physicians is rekindled, we are graced with the wisdom of Eli Ginzberg, the renowned health economist who died in December 2002. Ginzberg, an academic and activist economist at Columbia University, advised presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter and wrote prolifically about health policy and economics during his long career. Both intellectually and practically, he played an important role in the integration of women and members of minority groups into the American workforce, including into the field of medicine, and the desegregation of the military.
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