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The Health Care Crisis in the United States: A Call to Action.
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Health and Social Work
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February 1, 2001
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2001 National Association of Social Workers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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At the millennium, the health care system in the United States continues to be in crisis. The United States, to its shame, is the only industrialized country in the world that has not established universal health coverage. It is estimated that 42.6 million people have no health insurance--10 million are children (U.S. Census Bureau, 1999). The loss of health coverage and delays in care have resulted in thousands of deaths. (Himmelstein & Woolhandler, 1994). Despite the numbers, we can never calculate all of the human suffering that results from not having access to medical care. As social workers in the health care industry, we are eyewitnesses to this suffering on a daily ...
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