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Rethinking Reform

PROLOGUE

Rethinking Health System Reform

Few would disagree that fragmented care, runaway costs, and deteriorating access have eroded public confidence in the U.S. health system or that partisanship has undermined our leaders’ ability to work together to overcome these difficulties. In this special issue of Health Affairs, readers are invited to take a step back from stalemated political disputes over the system and think about the fundamental nature of the problems and our inability to solve them.

The papers in this section are intended to stretch the horizons of conventional thinking about reform. First, Victor Fuchs and Ezekiel Emanuel offer an analysis of the causes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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