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HEALTH CARE 2009

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Volume 360:2273-2275 May 28, 2009 Number 22
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The Proposed Government Health Insurance Company — No Substitute for Real Reform
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.

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As pressure builds on the White House and Congress to deliver on their promise of health care reform, the idea of a government health insurance company to compete with for-profit and not-for-profit private companies is gaining political momentum. Advocates claim that this new company would be more efficient, honest, and successful in forcing lower reimbursement rates on physicians and hospitals.1 However, a close look at how the present health care system functions, what its major problems are, and what reforms are needed to solve them suggests that this new idea is not the answer. The three major problems of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Fuchs is a professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.



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