For all the work and all the fuss and all the fighting that has surrounded the Affordable Care Act, there remains a very large fundamental problem in the American healthcare system, which is that it costs about 50 percent more than the most inefficient other industrialized countries' healthcare systems in the world.
On the recordJuly 16, 2014
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Whitehouse highlights the inefficiencies in the U.S. healthcare system despite the Affordable Care Act.
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