Medscape September 12, 2019
“The healthcare system in the United States results in serious medical, socioeconomic, and psychological burdens among American patients, particularly patients with cancer,” say the authors of a new article.
In most other high-income countries, healthcare is considered a human right and operates under some type of universal system.
In contrast, the US operates under a fractured and for-profit system.
So, they ask, “How do we change the current US system into a healthcare system for all?”
In a personal view article published online on August 28 in the Lancet Oncology, a few suggestions and solutions are offered by Greg Jones, BS, from the McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health, Houston, and Hagop Kantarjian, MD, a nonresident fellow in health...