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Excellent post about the market disincentives to providing rural health care by Allen Perkins on his blog "Training Family Doctors". http://usafamilymedicine.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/health-care-and-the-market/
Dr. Perkins goes on to quote from President Obama, who quotes Abraham Lincoln, about the need to care for others; this is a core principle of social justice, and one that I have addressed explicitly in the past both from a principled point of view (Does the nation need a clear policy on a right to basic health care?, April 10, 2009) and from one of enlightened self interest (Red, Blue, and Purple: The Math of Health Care Spending, Oct 20, 2009).
The market, well-regulated, can serve many purposes and be of value, but it cannot, by its nature, be relied upon to serve social justice needs.
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Disincentives to rural practice: from "Training Family Doctors" blog
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Excellent post about the market disincentives to providing rural health care by Allen Perkins on his blog "Training Family Doctors". http://usafamilymedicine.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/health-care-and-the-market/
Dr. Perkins goes on to quote from President Obama, who quotes Abraham Lincoln, about the need to care for others; this is a core principle of social justice, and one that I have addressed explicitly in the past both from a principled point of view (Does the nation need a clear policy on a right to basic health care?, April 10, 2009) and from one of enlightened self interest (Red, Blue, and Purple: The Math of Health Care Spending, Oct 20, 2009).
The market, well-regulated, can serve many purposes and be of value, but it cannot, by its nature, be relied upon to serve social justice needs.
- Index To Medicine And Social Justice Year 3, 12/2010-11/2011
General MedicalFriday, December 24, 2010, Cardiac stents and profit-driven corruption: do anti-fraud rules address the problem?Saturday, January 15, 2011, Risk, Primitive Reactions, and Human Health BehaviorsTuesday, March 15, 2011, Men’s Health? Women’s...
- Medicine And Social Justice Index, Year 2
. Continuing a "tradition" I started a year ago, here is a topically-organized list of the postings on Medicine and Social Justice for its second year, December 2009-November 2010. General Medical Tuesday, November 23, 2010: Lung Cancer Screening: Benefits,...
- Government Sponsored Health Coverage: The Good, The Cautionary, And The Ugly
The good news: The recent New York Times/CBS News poll (June 21, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health/policy/21poll.html?em) demonstrates conclusively that, as the headline reads, there is “Wide Support for Government-Run Health”. “The...
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Last week I watched “Sick Around America”[1], the PBS show Frontline. I was greatly looking forward to it as the follow-up to the outstanding show “Sick Around the World” that T.R. Reid, a former international correspondent for the Washington...
- Medicare Costs In Rural America: A Case Of Reaping What We Haven't Sown?
This guest column is by Donald Frey, MD. Dr. Frey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and an expert in rural primary care. He is also the accomplished author of the fiction book "Medicine:...