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By Julius B. Richmond and Rashi Fein. 307 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2005. $26.95. ISBN 0-674-01924-5.

Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The authors are long-time advocates of a single-payer health care system and long-time skeptics about competition in health care. Both are Harvard professors — one a physician, the other a medical economist. Both served in two Democratic administrations: Richmond in the Johnson and Carter administrations, and Fein in the Truman and Kennedy administrations. Both have been active in various liberal causes. President Jimmy Carter wrote the book's foreword, and the back cover bears promotional blurbs from (among others) Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Daniel Schorr, a senior news analyst for National . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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