The health care system in the United States is ranked 37th overall in the world even though it spends almost double per capita what other industrialized countries spend.
Forty-seven million Americans are uninsured and almost two million people a year are forced into bankruptcy due to unpaid medical bills.
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Dr. Steffie Woolhandler of Harvard Medical School and Dr. Don McCanne of Physicians for a National Health Program say John McCain's health-care proposals would make things worse than they are now, and Barack Obama's proposals aren’t enough to fix the problems.
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