If you want to understand health care in America, go to Broadway, where Hamilton is playing nightly to sold-out crowds. Better yet, read the Ron Chernow biography, Alexander Hamilton, on which the show is based.
In health care politics—and in all our politics—the United States is still living out the conflict between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson that flared in the 1790s. On the surface, the fight was about whether the federal government had the right to establish a central bank. But the split went far, far deeper.
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