title: The crisis of the health care nonsystem.
abstract: Far from being the best in the world, the United States' cure-oriented patchwork of fee-for-service service medical care has left 37 million American citizens without access to health care. The new public debate on health care reform gives nurses an opportunity to transform this ineffective market-oriented medical model into a universal, true health care system.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle.
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Krueger
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Moody
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D006285:Health Planning; D006291:Health Policy / Q000592:standards*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007857:Leadership; D009726:Nurses; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011057:Politics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States