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Volume 334:61-62 January 4, 1996 Number 1

Competing Solutions: American health care proposals and international experience

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By Joseph White. 392 pp. Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution, 1995. $38.95. ISBN 0-8157-9364-2.

It is now generally agreed, though Americans do not usually celebrate the point, that we cannot have it all: universal access to high-quality health care at moderate and stable costs. Joseph White, a research associate at the Brookings Institution (which also published his book) disagrees. White claims that we can resolve our health care problems by transforming the present situation, in part by eclectically adopting the best policies, or "key measures," of six nations (Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, and Japan), "choosing aspects of the framework that works in international experience." He seems unaware of the informal fallacy . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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