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The Hippocratic Civil Disobedience and Health Care Reform Underground
Author(s) -
Macauley Robert
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2005.0010
Subject(s) - medicaid , hippocratic oath , health care , work (physics) , civil disobedience , health care reform , law , business , medicine , family medicine , nursing , political science , health policy , politics , mechanical engineering , engineering
Health care reform is bottled up. Socially responsible physicians, forced to curtail care to uninsured patients, should respond with organized, open defiance, by billing the costs of the care to the accounts of patients covered under Medicaid or Medicare. Reverse cost‐shifting: maybe it could work, certainly it would be justified.