Health reform, primary care, and graduate medical education

摘要

The administration of President Barack Obama and its congressional allies, having wrested a vast health care reform bill from Republicans who were united in opposition, are moving rapidly to implement the new law.The law requires that every eligible American (about 95% of the population) carry medical insurance; only undocumented immigrants are ineligible for coverage. If the individual mandate passes the constitutional challenge raised by a number of states, some 30 million uninsured people will need to obtain coverage by 2014 or pay a financial penalty for not doing so.