The Difficult Realities of Healthcare in Our Country

摘要

Emily friedman and Deborah Chollet raise important issues about the future of health insurance, the uninsured, and the underinsured; Friedman also focuses on possible consequences to our nation's hospitals. These two authors reflect my own view that the healthcare system in the United States is broken and that structural reforms are long overdue. The ultimate solution—universal healthcare coverage—is not currently a popular political choice. Even with bipartisan support, universal coverage would take time, intense effort, and unprecedented cooperation to accomplish. Still, it is the one solution that would ensure care for all, in the most appropriate settings, particularly for the most vulnerable among us.