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        Article Author: David U. Himmelstein

        Mayhem in the Medical Marketplace

        by David U. Himmelsteinand Steffie Woolhandler
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        • Vol. 56, No. 07 (December 2004)

        December 1, 2004

        Even in the United States, some aspects of life are too precious, intimate or corruptible to entrust to the market. We prohibit selling kidneys and buying wives, judges, and children

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