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Article: Crisis in health care: 41 million have none. .(Health Beat United States)(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 30, 2003
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The United States has two health care crises--plus the freest medicine in the world for those who can afford it.
The first crisis haunts the 41 million Americans who have no medical coverage at all. This, in the words of the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation's Stuart Schear, is a five-part crisis.
During a recent Cover the Uninsured Week conference, Schear described the crisis as "a health issue, an issue of economics, a political issue--but also a moral issue and ethical issue."
The second U.S. health care crisis threatens those who do have coverage. It has two parts. Those Americans covered by Medicaid and Medicare are in publicly funded systems ...