Health Affairs, 25, no. 4 (2006): 1016 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.4.1016 © 2006 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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Public Health Partnerships And Reform

Public health has always been the neglected stepchild of the U.S. health care system. It subsisted on whatever funding was left over after flashier parts of the system took their cut, and it took on tasks, such as being the provider of last resort for the uninsured and indigent, that no one else was willing to perform. In Washington, D.C., legions of lobbyists in expensive suits frequented congressional hearings on Medicare policies toward physicians or pharmaceutical manufacturers, while public health hearings attracted much smaller crowds and far less sartorial splendor. After September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks around the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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