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Comments and Critiques on the EMBRACE Health Care Reform Plan
TO THE EDITOR:
Although the objectives of providing universal coverage, reducing administrative costs, and building on the public financing of health care are laudable, the proposal by Lancaster and colleagues (1) for a 3-tiered health insurance system is fatally flawed.
Dividing the population's health coverage into tiers—a major share of which is to be controlled by for-profit, private insurers—would perpetuate the wasteful fragmentation of our dysfunctional system. Such multipayer inefficiency would continue to deny us the vast administrative …
