Reducing the Number of 47 Million Americans Without Health Insurance

Kenneth Thorpe, Woodruff Professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory Universitys Rollins School of Public Health, is a leading advocate for national health care reform and insurance issues. He says the European health care model is far superior to the American system, despite the fact that in the U.S. we spend twice as much per person on health care. Learn about the fundamental differences in the systems and what is being done now to improve the U.S. system.

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