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Boston Surgeon And 'New Yorker' Writer Explores Whether Health Care Is A Right

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, author of the book, Being Mortal, and a staff writer for The New Yorker, about whether health care is a right. Gawande visited his hometown of Athens, Ohio, to find responses to this question are divided.

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