Panel Urges U.S. To Adopt Universal Health Insurance; Institute Says Federal Plan Should Be in Place by 2010
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › February 12, 2004
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Institute of Medicine on Wednesday recommended for the first time that the government provide universal health insurance, attempting to spark an election-year debate on a decades-old problem that keeps getting worse.
The president and Congress should set 2010 as the deadline for providing coverage to all, according to the institute, part of the National Academy of Sciences, a private organization chartered by Congress to provide scientific advice to the government.See the full content of this document
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Panel Urges U.S. To Adopt Universal Health Insurance; Institute Says Federal Plan Should Be in Place by 2010
The report endorsed no proposal and provided no estimate of cost, except to say it would be expensive.
It said that rising costs, increasing numbers of uninsured and growing financial pre...See the full content of this document
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