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To reform the health care system—or for that matter any other social system in the United States—we must have a better understanding of the historical and cultural factors that have influenced both the evolution of that system and our attitudes and expectations toward it. In other words, “How did we get here, and now what can we do about it?”
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Boomer Town,“ American Heritage, September 1993, p. 22.
F. J. Turner, An American Primer, ed. D. J. Boorstin ( New York: New American Library, 1985 ), p. 545.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 546.
Ibid., p. 544.
J. M. Burns, The Lion and the Fox ( New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1956 ), p. 264.
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Merrill, J.C. (1994). Closing the Frontier. In: The Road to Health Care Reform. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5994-2_4
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