AFRO-NETS> New food for a wrong thought (5)

["J. Warren Salmon" <JSalmon718@aol.com>]

New food for a wrong thought (5)
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What a thoughtful and worthwhile discussion of Health Sector Reforms 
from Dahlgren and Schuftan on the AFRO-NETS. I can testify that from 
"the belly of the tiger" here in the US that market-oriented reforms 
(the ideas and social policy software seeking buyers in Europe and the 
developing world) do not in any way create efficiency. Rather their im-
plementation will likely devastate other systems with the same end re-
sult we see here: greater inequities.

Since Clinton's health reform promises in 92-93 the number of uninsured 
(kept out of the system of care) has climbed from 34 million Americans 
to now 44 million, with the number of underinsured (10% of family in-
come goes to out-of-pocket medical expenses) has perhaps grown even 
more in number and proportion. Beware of the promises of the US market 
"solutions ". They haven't been properly evaluated for us up North, let 
alone for nations that don't want 16% of the GNP devoted to a health 
sector filled with inappropriate care and administrative overhead.

J. Warren Salmon, Ph.D., Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
mailto:JSalmon718@aol.com

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