Erschienen in:
01.02.2014 | Editorial
Physicians, Politics, and Health Insurance Expansion
verfasst von:
Steven A. Schroeder, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2014
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Excerpt
Physicians carry conflicting feelings about expanding health insurance coverage. On the one hand, the service ethic of the medical profession embraces the provision of medical care for all who need it. On the other hand, the inevitable increase in governmental authority that accompanies health insurance expansion threatens to interfere with the independent practice of medicine and to curb physician payment and income. In weighing these two imperatives, physicians have historically opted for opposing government expansion of coverage. Three examples illustrate this tendency. …