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In a move as bold as The Babe pointing to the left field fence to call the shot on his next home run, Dr. Zeke Emanuel brother of Rahm and a leading expert on the American healthcare system along with Dr. Jeffrey Liebman, has called his own shot by predicting the extinction of the American private health insurance model by the year 2020.

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