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In June 1998, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a set of recommendations for reform of the health care system. They were outlined in a report by the AMA's Council of Medical Service.¹ In this report we call for a fundamental rethinking of the predominant method of health care financing that would shift decision-making authority from employers to individual patients.

Background

The patient–physician relationship must ultimately be one of trust, but all too often trusting relationships are disrupted not because of dissatisfaction between patient and physician but because of choices made by the patient's employer, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

A Solution

Conclusions

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