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Volume 328:1129-1130 April 15, 1993 Number 15
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Doc Purdy's Prescription for Better Health Care -- A Tale of the Old West

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If President Bill Clinton were a reader of old-fashioned Western yarns instead of mysteries and even loftier books, he would know by now how to establish the best of all possible health care systems for all of America's citizens. Rather than propose his ever-changing mix of Medicare, Medicaid, and private-sector insurance schemes, which will probably be more complex and costly than the present byzantine arrangements, Clinton would simply call for the training of the sort of wise, kindly, and dedicated general practitioners who are staple characters in the novels of Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and every other Western author whose . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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