title: The troubled road to universal health care.
abstract: In our country the increasing commercialization of medicine is taking control of our medical school faculties, hospitals, and education. There is an overemphasis on health care efficiency, with a dramatic decrease in the commitment to research, an increase in the cost of medical education and resultant staggering student debt, an increasing number of medically uninsured, and an ever-widening gap between the best that American medicine can offer and that which the indigent receive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Goldfrank
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000639:trends; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States; D019472:Universal Health Insurance