Journalist Mark Trahant writes: “The discourse about health care reform is too limited. Too often people talk about the system in Canada, the UK, or other countries. But what about the direct health care already managed by the U.S. government?”

Mark Trahant will spend the next year researching and writing answers to that very question as a Kaiser Media Fellow.

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