Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the creation of a national health care system, perhaps modeled after the Canadian system, will bring costs under control and create a system that is truly equitable, universal, efficient and free at the time of delivery...
...recent poll, three out of five Americans expressed admiration for the Canadian system. Poll after poll shows that Americans are ready to support a national health care program. So where are our leaders on this issue...
...costs of health care are so enormous that any plan that attempts to extend benefits to only a small portion of the population will result either in placing an unfair financial burden on that portion, as was the case with the Catastrophic Health Care Act, or in the misuse of funds intended for other purposes, as is the case with the student health insurance program...
...where are the students? They are being forced to spend their Pell grants and scholarships on expensive private health insurance. If ever there were an issue for the 1990s, an issue that combines social consciousness with a healthy dose of self-interest, it is the issue of creating a national health care system...
David A. Danielson, a 1965 graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, is executive director of the Committee for a National Health Program...