A recent article was published in the Atlantic about Americans being the worst patients.
Americans are part of a broken and dysfunctional health care system with exorbitant costs, a maelstrom of bureaucratic red tape, and insurance coverage that barely covers what most people need.
But are they contributing to this system by being such bad patients?
The article in the Atlantic seems to imply that this is the case. The ...
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