An open letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton on reform

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Health care reform must find a way to insure the uninsured while reducing costs. Such reform can either fit as many people as possible into the healthcare budget or it can determine the money needed by adding up the costs of basic coverage for the number of people who should be covered. A number of issues should be addressed, such as lowering physician liability costs and allowing patients to help budget health care dollars. The single-payer system, used in Canada and other countries, should be avoided. It creates a two-tiered system where the wealthy pay extra for a better standard of care.

HEALTH SERVICES, Editorial

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Physicians consensus on reform needed soon

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Physician groups must come together and present a single, workable healthcare reform package to Congress. The groups must then devise a list of secondary priorities and bargaining tactics to use during Congressional negotiations. As it is, medical specialty organizations are lobbying behind each others' backs, a tactic which will be exploited by legislators who care little about particular specialties. If the medical profession does not take quick, decisive action to present a united front and a single plan, physicians may easily end up the group suffering most because of healthcare reform.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Political activity, Physicians, Medical professions

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Everybody's got a plan for health reform

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Health reform recommendations by various groups are outlined. For instance, the American Nursing Assn favors primary care in community nursing centers staffed by nurse clinicians. The American Hospital Assn opts for community organizations with managed care networks. Also included are plans sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield Assn, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Society of Internal Medicine, American College of Surgeons, American College of Physicians, and Physicians for a National Health Program.

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