• Nurs Econ · Sep 2004

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    Essential health care: affordable for all?

    • Mary O Mundinger, Edwidge Thomas, Janice Smolowitz, and Judy Honig.
    • Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY, USA.
    • Nurs Econ. 2004 Sep 1;22(5):239-44, 227.

    AbstractAccess to affordable health care has become a national crisis. The uninsured have many faces and many reasons for being uninsured. The nation cannot afford to sustain this broken system; not in terms of resources, nor in terms of the deteriorating health of the public. Universal coverage could offer a promising opportunity to begin to ameliorate the unsustainable use of expensive illness care now substituting for effective low-cost prevention and early detection. A proposal for essential health care coverage, a balance between cost and choice to maximize use of beneficial care, is presented.

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