Argument: High US health care costs are not attributable to premiums for rapid care

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Paul Krugman, Robin Wells. “The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It”. New York Times Review of Books. Volume 53, Number 5 · March 23, 2006 – “The frequent claim that the United States pays high medical prices to avoid long waiting lists for care also fails to hold up in the face of the evidence: there are long waiting lists for elective surgery in some non-US systems, but not all, and the procedures for which these waiting lists exist account for only 3 percent of US health care spending.”