Obama’s reform: no cure for what ails us

As the applause fades for President Obama’s health reform, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler fear that the new law will simply pump funds into a dysfunctional, market driven system

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Published in:BMJ 2010-03, Vol.340 (mar30 3), p.c1778-c1778
Main Authors: Himmelstein, David U, Woolhandler, Steffie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bureaucracy
Cost control
Costs and Cost Analysis
Defective products
Health care access
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health Care Reform - economics
Health Care Reform - legislation & jurisprudence
Health Expenditures
Humans
Insurance coverage
Medicaid
Medicaid - economics
Medically Uninsured - legislation & jurisprudence
Medicare
National health insurance
Physicians
Presidents
Uninsured people
United States
Universal Coverage - economics
Universal Coverage - legislation & jurisprudence
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Summary:As the applause fades for President Obama’s health reform, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler fear that the new law will simply pump funds into a dysfunctional, market driven system
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.c1778