Market orienting military health care through a voucher system.
The proposed voucher system may increase access; encourage the payer, the patient, and the provider to share responsibility for health; focus the patient's attention on the costs of treatment; and still provide the basic benefits needed to promote wellness and treat the sick. Because this system promises to fulfill four of the key principles of a just national health care system proposed by the NLCHC, it offers the further advantage of serving as a demonstration project for one approach to a national health care system. It may be time to undertake such a demonstration.
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U.S. Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Health Care Administration, Fort Sam Houston, TX.
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