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TWO VOICES

Healing Blues

Doctors want to focus on patients, but many complain that their work is being hampered by the high cost of delivering health care. Can the system be fixed?

By Patrick Kennedy
April 18, 2004

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Many physicians are sick of the financial side of medicine, such as low reimbursements from health insurers (plus mountains of paperwork) and high liability insurance premiums. We asked two doctors to share their decidedly different views on the nation's health care system. In particular, they debated whether a single-payer health insurance system would help both doctors and patients. Mark Eisenberg ... (Full Article: 799 Words)

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