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U.S. Urged on Universal Health Insurance
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Jan 14, 2004 04:16pm |
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| Media | News Service - Associated Press |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 14, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Urged on Universal Health Insurance
The Institute of Medicine on Wednesday recommended for the first time that the government provide universal health insurance, attempting to spark an election-year debate on a decades-old problem that keeps getting worse.
The president and Congress should set 2010 as the deadline for providing coverage to all, according to the institute, part of the National Academy of Sciences, a private organization chartered by Congress to provide scientific advice to the government.
The report endorsed no proposal and provided no estimate of cost, except to say it would be expensive.
It said that rising costs, increasing numbers of uninsured and growing financial pressures on health care providers have created the right conditions for major reform at the federal level, a decade after Congress rejected President Clinton's proposed overhaul. The report was the last of six studies over three years that explored aspects of the lack of health insurance. |
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