US Health System Needs Radical Overhaul: New York Times

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Health Supreme Update: US Health System Needs Radical

Overhaul: New York Times

 

 

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Health Supreme Update: US Health System Needs Radical Overhaul: New

York Times

 

October 25, 2004

 

 

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In an opinion editorial in Sunday's New York Times, editors

Donald Barlett and James Steele call for a radical overhaul of

the US health system. While the calamitous failure of

pharmaceutical suppliers to come up with the required

quantities of flu vaccine provides the immediate backdrop for

the piece, the discussion goes deeper. It is really about why

the US health system has dismally failed to deliver, despite an

almost unbearably high price tag. The profits of pharmaceutical

companies have been put before health. There is no interest in

prevention - it would simply be bad for business. The solution

that is proffered by Barlett and Steele makes sense. Create...

 

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Who would have imagined that?

 

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Sepp

 

 

 

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