Monday, August 23, 2004

Coalition Report Calls for Overhaul of Health System
Psychiatric News story - " The report may be a sign that momentum is building toward another urgent national debate on health system reform, 10 years after the failure of the Clinton health reform initiative. It's déjà vu all over again. Ten years after a debate on national health system reform sputtered and died, a group calling itself the largest coalition of organizations focused on health care reform has issued an alarm: the nation's health care system is in crisis and needs immediate, fundamental, systemic reform. The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC), a Washington, D.C.–based advocacy group, issued a report calling for fundamental health system reform beyond anything that is being considered today in Congress." See also the full report, Building a Better Health Care System: Specifications for Reform (Adobe Acrobat format).