title: Polydoreiphilia: a disease affecting health care financing.
abstract: In our country, thinking on the subject of health care financing is confused to the point of constituting a disease, termed polydoreiphilia. Though the disease has multiple manifestations, it is caused by one underlying abnormal mechanism: the irrational love of multiple free gifts. The name of the disease is derived from that mechanism. Practical, realistic, non-ideological measures may help manage the disorder and lead to provision of effective health care for our citizens.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bonner
mesh_terms: D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000191:economics*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States