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MLK Jr.-Harbor Hospital: A preview of socialized medicine?

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June 14, 2007Jun 14, 2007

David Hogberg says the well-publicized case of Edith Isabel Rodriguez, dying in the ER waiting room, may be a preview of government-run health care.

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