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Why Health Reform Legislation Cannot Lay Out a 'Master Plan:' Part 2
The Century Foundation Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Dec. 16, 2009

"While many uninsured and underinsured patients receive too little care, a great many well-insured patients -- including Medicare patients -- receive too much of the wrong kind of care. Gawande explains: 'Our system neglects low-profit services like mental-health care, geriatrics, and primary care, and [is] almost giddy in its overuse of high-cost technologies such as radiology imaging, brand-name drugs, and many elective procedures.' It's remarkable how those who have investigated reform agree. It's not that we don't know what to aim for. We're just not at all sure how to achieve those goals in a profit-driven health care system."

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