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In September 1993, President Clinton introduced his plan to reform the U.S. health care system. How successful he is in getting his proposals enacted remains to be seen. But, regardless of the outcome—and regardless of what one thinks of the details of the plan itself—his action must already be considered as significant, for the following reasons.
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Robert Pear, “One Trillion Dollars in Health Costs Predicted,” The New York Times, December 29,1994, p. A12.
Robert J. Blendon and Humphrey Taylor, “Views on Health Care: Public Opinion in Three Nations,” Health Affairs, 8 (1), 1989, pp. 149–157.
Sylvia Law, Blue Cross: What Went Wrong? ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976 ), p. 68.
Ibid., p. 68.
Ibid., p. 69.
Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (New York: Basic Books, 1982), p. 296. This book offers a good description of both the emergence of Blue Cross and Blue Shield and their implications for the future of health care financing in the United States. See the section “Birth of the Blues,” pp. 295–310.
Ibid., p. 297.
Ibid., p. 297.
Ibid., p. 296.
D. W. Light, Political Values and. Health Care: The German Experience, eds. D. W. Light and A. Schuller ( Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986 ), pp. 4–5.
Ibid., p. 3.
M. G. Taylor, Insuring National Health Care: The Canadian Experience ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990 ), p. 34.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 46.
Ibid., p. 17.
Ibid.
S. Andreopoulos, ed., National Health Insurance: Can We Learn from Canada? ( New York: John Wiley, 1975 ), p. 15.
Ibid., p. 21.
A. C. Monheit and P H. Harvey, Inquiry, Fall 1993, as reported in Health Benefits, November 15, 1993.
Pear, p. A12.
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Merrill, J.C. (1994). The Origins of Our Health Care System. In: The Road to Health Care Reform. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5994-2_2
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