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...American health care system represents a "serious threat to the stability of American business and federal government," said Dr. Arnold S. Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, in a speech before 60 last night at Emerson Hall...
...Relman, who is also professor of medicine and social medicine emeritus, attacked the current system for its poor quality and failure to sufficiently cover health care costs. "[The current system] costs much more than we can afford," he said...
...Relman said health spending will total nearly $950 billion this year, or $3,600 per capita. This is equivalent to 14.5 percent of the United States' gross national product (GNP), he said...
Corrected for inflation, Relman said, health spending in the U.S. has been increasing six percent per year for the past three decades and, if allowed to continue at this rate, will top $1.7 trillion, or 20 percent of the GNP, by the end of the decade. "What is perfectly clear," he said, "is that we can't continue the way we've been going...
...Although Relman acknowledges that he has no way of knowing whether or not his ideas are being incorporated, he continues to hope for a plan based on the furthering of medical advances. "Medical research and education are the taproots of any kind of healthy and growing health care system," he says...