A national health insurance program for the United States

The US will spend $1.79 trillion on health care in 2004, yet 44 million Americans remain uninsured. What the country needs, argues McCanne, is publicly funded universal health coverage The country must abandon its fragmented system

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Published inPLoS medicine Vol. 1; no. 2; p. e39
Main Author McCanne, Don R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Public Library of Science 01.11.2004
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects
Costs
Diabetes
Epidemiology/Public Health
Funding
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health Care Reform
Health care statistics
Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data
Health Policy
Health Services Administration/Management
Humans
Industrialized nations
Insurance coverage
Medically Uninsured
National health insurance
National Health Insurance, United States
Per capita
Physician's Role
Physicians
Policy Forum
Policy Making
Private Sector
Public Sector
Quality of Health Care
Uninsured people
United States
United States
United States > US
Private Sector
Health Care Reform
Public Sector
United States
Humans
National Health Insurance, United States
Policy Making
Medically Uninsured
Health Expenditures
Health Policy
Quality of Health Care
Physician's Role
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Summary:The US will spend $1.79 trillion on health care in 2004, yet 44 million Americans remain uninsured. What the country needs, argues McCanne, is publicly funded universal health coverage The country must abandon its fragmented system
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Don R. McCanne is a former president of Physicians for a National Health Program, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. E-mail: don@mccanne.org
Competing Interests: The author declares that he has no competing interests.
ISSN:1549-1676
1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.0010039