An Enlightened Proposal

August, 1993

An Enlightened ProposalOne Fact sets the U.S. apart from every other modern nation. Ours is the only country on the planet in which health care is a commercial enterprise and not a social-policy issue. There is no connection between our health delivery systems and public health. The questions of profit and loss ultimately determine how most health care is delivered.The political assumption that health care is a commodity has produced the irrationality of the current system. In the U.S. the going...