The movement for universal health insurance: finding common ground.
@article{Bodenheimer2003TheMF,
title={The movement for universal health insurance: finding common ground.},
author={Thomas Bodenheimer},
journal={American journal of public health},
year={2003},
volume={93 1},
pages={
112-5
}
}Before 1971, all proposals for universal health insurance were based on private sector financing and administration. After 1971, universal health insurance plans relying on the private sector complicated efforts of the universal health insurance movement. To forge as broad a movement for universal health insurance as possible, it may be worthwhile for universal health insurance advocates of different persuasions to seek common ground on the basis of a set of goals for a new health care system…
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