NEJM Perspective Discusses Shortcomings of U.S. Market-Based Health Care System
"Market-Based Failure -- A Second Opinion on U.S. Health Care Costs," New England Journal of Medicine: The NEJM perspective by Robert Kuttner, co-editor of the American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos, discusses why market-based health care does not contain costs or improve health. According to Kuttner, a comprehensive, government-organized, universal health care system would be more efficient because it would emphasize basic public health measures and eliminate incentives for providers to pursue the most profitable treatments (Kuttner, NEJM, 2/7).
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