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Article: Readers' Forum: Why our country falls down on health care
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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We need health reform now! Yes, certainly to staunch the
increasing cost to our economy, but more importantly to address the
challenges of our current dysfunctional system. I know we can do
better because of my years of service in academic medical centers,
community hospitals and medical groups.
While we have the best equipment, clinicians and medicines, our
country underperforms many others, including some in the Third
World, when we compare clinical outcomes. For starters, millions
here have no health insurance, either because they cannot afford it,
or they elect to go without. What saves many of the uninsured is the
legal requirement that hospital emergency departments, by law, must ...