WHERE DOES IT HURT America's Medical Crisis and the Politics of Health Reform By Richard J. Margolis SPECIAL ISSUE INTRODUCTION "Within limits," the English sociologist Richard M. Titmuss...
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WHAT AILS MEDICINE IN AMERICA The best medical care America presently has to offer may still be the best in the world, which is why ailing kings and potentates frequently repair to our famous...
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HOW THE SYSTEM GREW Most of the health care system's present inadequacies arise from its past triumphs: the advances of science, education, professionalism and, finally, political organization....
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HOSPITALS AND INSURANCE There are those who see in our health care delivery system a vast conspiracy against the public, an alliance of greedy physicians, hardhearted hospitals and profit-hungry...
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ALTERNATIVE OEMED1ES Last December 29, President Nixon signed the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973-"another milestone in this Administration's national health strategy," he remarked at...
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THE POLITICS OF HEALTH REFORM No one in Washington nowadays, except for an occasional AMA lobbyist, worries about Federal intrusions into our private health care system. It is at least eight years...
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