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April 2009, Vol 99, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 588-590
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.158808

EDITORIALS

Reforming Health Care or Reforming Health?

Thomas A. Farley, MD, MPH

Thomas A. Farley is with the Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Thomas A. Farley, MD, MPH, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal St, TW-19, New Orleans, LA 70112 (e-mail: tfarley@tulane.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
Health care reform is back. By the time this article appears, President Barack Obama may have introduced his health care plan to Congress. The justification that we need comprehensive reform is compelling: in 2005 we spent nearly $6700 per capita—which is nearly twice as much as most other developed nations—for a system that fails to cover 44 million US citizens.1 Despite our expenditures, the United States has adult and infant mortality rates that rank it at the bottom among the world's high-income developed countries and that are about 50% higher than the median mortality rates of these countries.2

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   THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL CARE
 

   THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
 

   TRUE HEALTH REFORM
 



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