The case for a new American healthcare system: There is no shortage of policy papers, commissions, committees, and conferences on the problems that plague the healthcare system in America today.(COMMENTARY)

From: Healthcare Financial Management | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Stern, Andy | Copyright information

It is probably the most talked about, the most studied, and the least acted upon issue our country faces. And that needs to change.

At the Service Employees International Union, we look at health care from a number of different vantage points. We are the largest healthcare union in the country. Our membership includes nearly 1 million nurses, physicians, hospital staff, nursing home, and home care workers. So we see health care from the bedside, but we also see it at the...

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