Medscape September 12, 2019
Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN

“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...

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