Universal health care, American style: a single fund approach to health care reform.
With increasing momentum for health care reform, attention is shifting to finance reform that will provide for direct methods for controlling health care spending. This article outlines the two principal paths to direct cost control and outlines a national plan that retains our multiple sources of payment, yet also contains a powerful direct cost control technique: a single fund to finance all health care.
Beauchamp
D E
DE
School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany.
D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D035082:Federal Government; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000379:methods*; D033161:Government Regulation; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006278:Medicare / Q000639:trends; D009310:National Health Insurance, United States / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States