RSS Feeds
Financing the Care of Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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The problem of financing care for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other illnesses resulting from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is symptomatic of the larger problems of financing health care in this country. Although most often the term "patients with AIDS" is used in this paper for simplification, our statements and recommendations apply to patients with all HIV-associated illnesses. The AIDS crisis places in bold relief inadequacies that are felt throughout our health system, such as inadequate care for persons who have neither private nor public coverage, limited access of the poor to care, inadequate funding for
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Article and Author Information
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↵* This paper was written by Howard B. Shapiro, Ph.D., and was developed for the Health and Public Policy Committee by the Health Care Financing Subcommittee: John M. Eisenberg, M.D., Chairman; Robert H. Brook, M.D.; Paul S. Entmacher, M.D.; Arthur W. Feinberg, M.D.; Bruce J. Sams, Jr., M.D.; and H. Denman Scott, M.D. Members of the Health and Public Policy Committee for the 1987-1988 term are Richard G. Farmer, M.D., Chairman; John M. Eisenberg, M.D.; F. Daniel Duffy, M.D.; Donald L. Feinstein, M.D.; Paul F. Griner, M.D.; Joseph E. Johnson III, M.D.; Charles E. Lewis, M.D.; and Michael A. Nevins, M.D.; C. S. Lewis, Jr., M.D.; Stephen A. Schroeder, M.D.; and Quentin D. Young, M.D. The paper was adopted by the Board of Regents on 15 January 1988.
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▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Howard B. Shapiro, Ph.D.; Senior Associate for Government Relations, American College of Physicians, 655 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Suite 425; Washington, D.C. 20005.
- © 1988 American College of Physicians
