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"Care about Your Care" Initiative Urges Americans to...

Season 2011 Episode 2590 | 4m 49s

Throughout the month of September, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is urging Americans to re-take control of their health care. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, the foundation's president and CEO, told Hari Sreenivasan that the U.S. health care system is too fragmented and inconsistent for patients to leave their health completely in the hands of hospitals and doctors.

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