UNINSURED IN AMERICA: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

It is interesting that we seem to have trends in medical publishing, so you’ll get an innovative spell, then a consolidation, then reflection. These papers are largely whinging about various things. The Americans know that they have a uniquely inadequate service with overinvestigation and overtreatment at one end and virtually no care at the other end. Primary care is weak in America. In the UK there are two examples of government initiatives where vast tranches of money are being expended on high-profile schemes without much benefit for the public. This is not joined-up government, but ought-to-be-strung-up government.

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