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PERSPECTIVE

Here We Go Again—Lessons On Health Reform

The 2008 election will focus renewed attention on fundamental health care reform. Lessons from past politically driven reform efforts show that although fundamental reforms may make for good politics, a systemic shift in how health care is financed and delivered is unlikely to occur. Calls for fundamental reform over the past twenty-five years have prompted incremental changes that have had a major impact on the U.S. health care system. Many of these changes were driven from outside the political system. The forecast based on past experience is not radical change; it is more of the same.

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