[lbo-talk] NEJM sez: Single payer would solve all US's healthcare problems

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 26 14:41:16 PDT 2003


Michael Pollak wrote:


>[Isn't the New England Journal of Medicine pretty much the official
>house organ of
>American Medicine?]

I used to see it pretty regularly, but haven't for a few years. Then, esp under editor Arthur Relman, it was on the "liberal" end of the medical spectrum, critical of market incentives in health care. The cynical interpretation of this would be that, having seen managed care, it preferred a more public sector solution - to preserve the old professional autonomy of docs, which was being undermined by corporate medicine.

Doug



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