The United States needs a health system like other countries
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The health care crisis in the US is both financial and philosophical. The US is the only developed country without a comprehensive health care system. US policymakers need to restructure their thinking and develop a new approach to the provision of health care. Health care policy should be restructured to approximate that on which the Social Security system is based. Development of a health care policy has been dominated by classical economists. These individuals support free competitive markets as the solution to the health care crisis. The Clinton administration promotes this viewpoint with its plan for managed competition. An alternative solution may be to develop a national health care insurance based on the example of the health care systems in other developed countries. This type of insurance would increase health care coverage, create a stable source of funding and contain costs.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1993
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Management of patients with HIV/AIDS: who should care?
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Some physicians claim that HIV patients should be cared for by physicians with experience with AIDS but that may be difficult to achieve. Such a physician must treat many AIDS patients to acquire this experience, and rural areas will not have enough patients. Some urban HMOs have instituted an AIDS expert policy, but these policies have been hard to implement. Many primary care physicians may not wish to refer all their HIV patients to a specialist. Fifteen AIDS Education and Training Centers were set up nationwide specifically to provide continuing education workshops and clerkships for physicians.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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