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The trillion-dollar health care mystery

What really happens when you change the system? MIT economist Amy Finkelstein decided to find out.

By Joshua Rothman

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  May 06, 2012

MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, recent winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, goes beyond the political debate to look at the real economic consequences of changes in health care policy.

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