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  • Title: Health care reform: the case for a primary care imperative.
    Author: Starfield B.
    Journal: Health Care Manag; 1994 Aug; 1(1):23-34. PubMed ID: 10152354.
    Abstract:
    One of the major goals of health reform is assuring financial access to a basic benefits package for all U.S. citizens, while maintaining better health at a contained rate of growth in costs. In questioning the ability of the Clinton Health Security Act to achieve this goal, the article presents a rationale for the consideration of those aspects of organizational reform that are necessary to achieve a primary care orientation that would meet such a goal. The author cautions that reform proposals that focus primarily on the financing of services are unlikely to influence the organizational reorientation from a specialty focus to a primary care imperative.
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