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Inside Puerto Rico’s Crumbling Healthcare System

Puerto Rico is in the midst of a healthcare crisis after a series of natural disasters hit its rapidly aging population. The Washington Post's Arelis Hernández writes that "more people are dying in Puerto Rico as its healthcare system crumbles." Hernández tells Hari Sreenivasan that Puerto Rico's crisis could be a warning of what's to come in the United States.

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