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To the Editor: A change in the financing of our health care system is clearly needed -- and imminent. When I was in practice I was astounded by the amount of paperwork the private sector generated in paying for health care and dismayed by the amount of time my staff and I devoted to the paperwork, rather than to the patient. Should simplification of paperwork indeed result from a national health care plan, this would free a considerable amount of time for the provision of health care. But the law of unintended consequences could operate here. What will all the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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