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Medical student Vanessa Van Doren co-authors piece in support of national health care system

OP-ED | December 8, 2017
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF
Vanessa Van Doren, a student at the School of Medicine, co-authored a piece for STAT arguing for a public health insurance system. In the piece, titled “We are America’s future doctors. We support a Medicare-for-all health system,” Van Doren and three other medical students from other universities argued that a lack of regular access to health care costs the government as patients go to hospitals more often with conditions that could have been prevented. Read her thoughts.