The New England Journal of Medicine (acesso livre) debate o que se passará nos Estados Unidos depois da eleição presidencial, onde o tema "assistência médica " será o mais importante - como esse blogue insiste há mais de um ano - depois da questão Iraque.A figura ao lado, reproduzida desse artigo, é o resultado de pesquisa da Kaiser Foundation, uma medicina de grupo da costa oeste americana. Essa enquete mostrou que mais da metade do eleitorado quer mudanças profundas.
A conclusão do artigo é uma síntese genial desse debate genuinamente americano sobre assistência médica.
The 2008 presidential election will not resolve the debate over health care reform, but the results will go a long way toward determining the future of U.S. health policy. It would be a mistake, however, to read the candidates' plans too literally. A plan offered during the primaries usually looks different in key respects from the plan that a newly elected president takes to Congress, to say nothing of any legislation that Congress actually passes. Still, it is clear that there is a wide partisan gap on health care reform that reflects ideological divisions over the roles that government and market forces should play in the health care system. And the further U.S. health policy moves from incrementalism, the more that partisan divide is likely to be exposed.
The 2008 presidential election will not resolve the debate over health care reform, but the results will go a long way toward determining the future of U.S. health policy. It would be a mistake, however, to read the candidates' plans too literally. A plan offered during the primaries usually looks different in key respects from the plan that a newly elected president takes to Congress, to say nothing of any legislation that Congress actually passes. Still, it is clear that there is a wide partisan gap on health care reform that reflects ideological divisions over the roles that government and market forces should play in the health care system. And the further U.S. health policy moves from incrementalism, the more that partisan divide is likely to be exposed.
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