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Health Affairs, 27, no. 2 (2008): 500-506 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.500 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Narrative Matters

Crossing The Atlantic

Anjali Jain

WHEN I MOVED FROM THE UNITED STATES TO ENGLAND, I expected a nearly idyllic version of health care, a system that had achieved what we in the U.S. struggle to build, a system both sophisticated and equitable. It was not what I found.

Let me say at the outset that many of my experiences came from navigating the National Health Service (NHS) on behalf my younger daughter, who has a combination of developmental delays, learning disabilities, fine motor deficits, and severe inattention. Her lack of a unifying diagnosis makes her complicated—a challenge for our family and for any . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Slowly, Slowly

 

The National Health Service Reality

 

Enough

 

From Both Sides Now

 

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