PHA-Exchange> Uninsured in America: problems and possible solutions

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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 
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Uninsured in America: problems and possible solutions

Karen Davis, Commonwealth Fund, New York, USA

BMJ  2007;334:346-348 (17 February, 2007), doi:10.1136/bmj.39091.493588.BE 

Failure to ensure access to health care for all lies at the heart of the US failure to achieve value for money

Website: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7589/346 

"..The United States is the only major industrialised nation without universal health insurance, and coverage has deteriorated in the past six years. The consequences are increasingly well known: inequities in access to care, avoidable mortality and poor quality care, financial burdens on people who are uninsured or underinsured, and lost economic productivity. The US spends twice as much on health care as the median industrialised nation but does not systematically achieve the best quality care. What are the prospects for reform? ..

 
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