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Canadian Healthcare Architect Abandons His Own Creation
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6-30-2008 11:02 PM
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Rustee
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If Claude Castonguay is abandoning ship, why should Americans bother climbing on board?
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7-1-2008
12:41 AM
merrie
How is that Healthcare system supposed to work with the same number of hospitals and the same number of doctors, nurses, etc.? That type of Healthcare plan would collapse the medical system.
7-1-2008
11:59 AM
willhelm
I clipped this too - from the same source. You don't hear about this anywhere.
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