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"Health of the Nation -- Coverage for All Americans," New England Journal of Medicine: The view reviews the 2008 Shattuck Lecture, sponsored by NEJM and the Massachusetts Medical Society, in which 13 health care industry representatives discussed current challenges veneer the U.S. health tending system and possible solutions. The venire discussed physicians' objections to a reimbursement program that pays more than for technology-enhanced procedures instead of time spent with patients, reviewed the pauperism for developing health attention information technology and explicit concern around the high costs associated with new drugs and end-of-life upkeep (NEJM [1], 8/21). A related NEJM editorial discusses the health care proposals of presumptive presidential nominees Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and questions whether whatsoever "meaningful health care reform" will study shape in the next administration. The editorial likewise calls for a "concentrated effort by all the major stakeholders in our health upkeep system, as represented by the panelists," to bring about reform (NEJM [2], 8/21).
"The Partisan Divide -- The McCain and Obama Plans for U.S. Health Care Reform," NEJM: In an NEJM perspective, Jonathan Oberlander, an associate professor of social medicine and health insurance and administration at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, examines the health plans of presidential candidates McCain and Obama. According to Oberlander, the candidates' "ambitious regenerate agendas ... would take the U.S. health care system in selfsame different directions." He adds that the plans "ar best viewed as sketches rather than finished portraits, with many important details yet to be revealed." He concludes, "The candidates' opposing visions of wellness care reform reflect basically different assumptions about the virtues and vices of markets and government. With the debate over how to reform U.S. health care far from colonised, whoever wins the presidential term can anticipate fierce opposition to whatsoever attempt at comprehensive reform" (Oberlander, NEJM, 8/22).
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