Foreword: National health reform and America's uninsured

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

9-2004

Journal

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volume

Volume 32, Issue 3

Inclusive Pages

386-389

Keywords

Medicaid & SCHIP; Uninsured; Medicare

Abstract

For those uninitiated to the intricacies of the U.S. health system, perhaps its single most striking characteristic is its failure to function as a universal benefit in a manner similar to education, Social Security, and essential, population-based community services. This nation enjoys extraordinary and unprecedented wealth; yet it stands alone among industrialized countries in the area of health coverage. Why and how we as a people have chosen this pathway, the human, financial and economic, and social consequences of our choice, and the imperative for reform, are the subject of this special symposium of JLME.

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