Despite the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. medical system is near collapse. What will save it is a single-payer system and physicians in group practice.
Arnold Relman
Arnold S. Relmanis professor emeritus of medicine and of social medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Posted inFeatures
Canada’s Romance with Market Medicine
Canada, of all places, is having a highly charged national debate about whether to adopt the U.S. model of commercialized health care as part of its national health-insurance system. Health policy makers in Canada, particularly at the provincial level where most practical decisions are made, are being told a monstrous myth. Consultants and business people, […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
State of the Debate: Dr. Business
A new book by a Harvard Business School professor who wants to reorganize medicine into “focused factories” shows just how scary the medical-industrial complex might become.