Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Author(s) -
Danny McCormick,
David U. Himmelstein,
Steffie Woolhandler,
David H. Bor
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.164.3.300
Subject(s) - managed care , health care , salary , business , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , fee for service , self insurance , actuarial science , health insurance , finance , economic growth , economics , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , market economy
Forty-one million Americans have no health insurance and, despite the growth of managed care, medical costs are again increasing rapidly. One proposed solution is a single-payer health care financing system with universal coverage. Yet, physicians' views of such a system have not been well studied.
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