Hospitals should provide services to all to save private health system, professor advises group.(Strategic Notes)

Publication: Health Care Strategic Management

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The U.S. health care system is headed for disaster, in the form of either consumer rebellion leading to nationalization, or a country where only the very wealthy have access to care.

But Leland Kaiser, Ph.D., has a solution. Let the hospitals, physicians, philanthropists, government agencies and even insurance companies in each community join forces to provide care to everyone within their borders--not always the same level of care, but a basic level that leaves no one without access.

It can be done, argued Kaiser, who is a psychologist, health care consultant and professor of health administration at the University of Colorado. He made his case Dec. 3 before about 120 health care executives at...

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