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Previous Volume 338:1705-1706 June 4, 1998 Number 23

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Edited by Stuart H. Altman, Uwe E. Reinhardt, and Alexandra E. Shields. 426 pp. Chicago, Health Administration Press, 1998. $55. ISBN 1-56793-067-0.

There are 43 million uninsured Americans (and millions more underinsured), because the richest country in the world has yet to develop the consensus that would provide every citizen with access to an appropriate range of health care services, regardless of health status or personal income. The problem of the uninsured persists in a country that is enjoying the benefits of one of its most sustained economic expansions and where there is even the prospect of achieving a balanced budget in 1998.

The contributors to this book, one of whom is a physician, present the sobering problem of the uninsured not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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