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Reform Before Calamity

Victor Fuchs and Ezekiel Emanuel’s discussion of health care reform (Nov/Dec 05) calls prospects for comprehensive reform "dim" in the near term. They write that reform prospects could be advanced by "a major war, a depression, or large-scale civil unrest"—or, they add, a "national health care crisis, such as a flu pandemic," also might suffice.

For readers dismayed by that menu of catalysts, they offer up another scenario: that reform might be impelled by a combination of factors, such as widespread unhappiness in the business community with the trajectory of employer-sponsored coverage; states’ inability to keep up with the budgetary . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Henry E. Simmons

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