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EPISODE · May 14, 2012 · 12 MIN

Podcast 155: What’s wrong with U.S. healthcare and what will save it?

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Dr. Arnold Relman, longtime observer of the U.S. healthcare system and editor emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine, proposes two major reforms: First, private insurance companies should leave the healthcare field, and second, physicians should organize into multispecialty practices. His proposals, just published in BMJ, grow out of his alarmed observation — some 30 years ago in the NEJM — of the rise of the “new medical-industrial complex.” Links: BMJ essay (free abstract) NEJM 1980 article (free abstract) The post Podcast 155: What’s wrong with U.S. healthcare and what will save it? first appeared on Clinical Conversations.

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Dr. Arnold Relman, longtime observer of the U.S. healthcare system and editor emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine, proposes two major reforms: First, private insurance companies should leave the healthcare field, and second, physicians should organize into multispecialty practices. His proposals, just published in BMJ, grow out of his alarmed observation — some 30 […]

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