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Axios provides a daily diet of useful headlines and efficient and accurate summaries of the news behind the headline and, in their words, why it matters.

On March 8, Axios writer Sam Baker provides a bite-sized and useful piece entitled “The unique problem with U.S. health care.” He does our work for us as we try to be fact-based and rational.

You can find it at Axios.com.

For our readers who are familiar with our Healthcare Position, you will recognize his discussion of the wasteful “fragmentation” of our multiple providers, the cost of our failure to negotiate drug, hospital, provider, and medical equipment prices, and the cost to all of us of the tax deductibility of healthcare costs by employers.