The difficult realities of healthcare in our country

Emily Friedman and Deborah Chollet raise important issues about the future of health insurance, the uninsured, and the underinsured; Friedman also focuses on possible consequences to US hospitals. These two authors reflect the view that the healthcare system in the US is broken and that structural r...

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Published in:Frontiers of health services management 2005, Vol.21 (4), p.29-33
Main Author: Lofton, Kevin E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Catholicism
Civil Rights - legislation & jurisprudence
Economics, Hospital - trends
Emergency Service, Hospital - economics
Emergency Service, Hospital - utilization
Health administration
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health Policy - trends
Health savings accounts
Health Services Accessibility - economics
Health Services Accessibility - legislation & jurisprudence
Hospitals
Hospitals, Religious - economics
Hospitals, Religious - utilization
Humans
Indigent care
Low income groups
Medicaid
Medically Uninsured - ethnology
Social Values
Uncompensated Care - economics
Uninsured people
United States
Vulnerable Populations - ethnology
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Summary:Emily Friedman and Deborah Chollet raise important issues about the future of health insurance, the uninsured, and the underinsured; Friedman also focuses on possible consequences to US hospitals. These two authors reflect the view that the healthcare system in the US is broken and that structural reforms are long overdue. The ultimate solution-universal healthcare coverage-is not currently a popular political choice. Even with bipartisan support, universal coverage would take time, intense effort, and unprecedented cooperation to accomplish. Still, it is the one solution that would ensure care for all, in the most appropriate settings, particularly for the most vulnerable among us.
ISSN:0748-8157
2475-2797
DOI:10.1097/01974520-200504000-00004