Friday, July 19, 2002

Universal U.S. healthcare within grasp

Check out this story from UPI:

Health care could be provided to the 43 million uninsured people in the United States without spending an additional dollar, a University of Illinois professor said.

"The savings on administrative costs alone are enough to basically take care of every uninsured person in this country," Tom O'Rourke told United Press International.

O'Rourke, who teaches community health at the Urbana-Champaign campus, and Nicholas Iammarino, a professor of kinesiology at Rice University in Houston, set forth their arguments in the article "Future of Healthcare Reform in the USA: Lessons From Abroad," published in the June issue of the British journal Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research...