Universal Insurance for American Health Care
A Proposal of the American College of Physicians*
Excerpt
America urgently needs comprehensive health care reform. The American College of Physicians (ACP) believes that universal access to care can be achieved only through system-wide reform in the organization and financing of health care (1). This paper outlines our proposal for a national policy to achieve that reform.
Overview As a professional society of physicians whose goal is excellence in medicine, we see a system failing all who are a part of it—patients, physicians and other health professionals, purchasers, and insurers. Most of the problems have been well documented: over 35 million Americans without health coverage, excessive utilization of high
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Article and Author Information
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↵* This paper, authored by H. Denman Scott, MD, MPH, and Howard B. Shapiro, PhD, was developed for the Health and Public Policy Committee: Clifton R. Cleaveland, MD, Chair; Cecil O. Samuelson, Jr., MD, Vice-Chair; Christine K. Cassel, MD; David J. Gullen, MD; Harold C. Sox, Jr., MD; Quentin D. Young, MD; Robert A. Berenson, MD; John M. Eisenberg, MD; Woodrow A. Myers, Jr., MD; Steven A. Schroeder, MD; and Gerald E. Thomson, MD. Approved by the Board of Regents on 10 July 1992.
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Requests for Reprints: H. Denman Scott, MD, Health and Public Policy Division, American College of Physicians, Independence Mall West, Sixth Street at Race, Philadelphia, PA 19106-1572.
- © 1992 American College of Physicians
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