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Article: Community values in Vermont health planning. (Grassroots Bioethics Revisited: Health Care Priorities and Community Values)
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- The Hastings Center Report
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- September 1, 1990
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Community Values in Vermont Health Planning
Most observers of America's health care system agree that change is necessary. Although we spend more per capita on health care than any other country in the world, the health of our population falls short of many other countries. We are unable to successfully manage costs; and universal access, available in every other industrialized country except South Africa, still eludes us as thirty-one million Americans remain uninsured.
Our public policies are riddled with conflict as a result of the public's own conflict about health care. We expect that the best medical care be provided for all, while we resist with ...