US health care: single-payer or market reform.
The authors advocate a fundamental change in health care financing-national health insurance (NHI). NHI would reorient the way we pay for care, bringing the hundreds of billions now squandered on malignant bureaucracy back to the bedside. NHI could restore the physician-patient relationship, offer patients a free choice of physicians and hospitals, and free physicians from the hassles of insurance paperwork.
Himmelstein
David U
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Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge MA 02139, USA.
Woolhandler
Steffie
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D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States