Jeneen Interlandi is a staff writer at the ''New York Times'' magazine and a member of ''

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'' editorial board. Interlandi was born in

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, Colombia, adopted by Sicilian-Americans, and raised in Central New Jersey. After a bachelor's degree in biology at

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, Interlandi earned a M.A. in environmental science and M.S. in journalism at

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. She was a 2013 Harvard University Nieman Fellow. She has written about health, science, and education since 2006. Before joining the ''Times'', she was a staff writer at ''Consumer Reports'' and ''Newsweek,'' and a freelance journalist for several national magazines. She participated in

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, with an essay highlighting the work of

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.Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer begins with policies enacted after the Civil War
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