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Health Care That Works: A Plan for Transforming Our National Health Care System

Milton H. Seifert, Jr, and Orlo J. Otteson, ISBN 0-9617590-1-1, Spring Park, Minn, MD Publishing Co, 1994.

Timothy J. Wolter, MD, Reviewer
Family Health Associates Chippewa Falls, Wis

Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(9):835-836.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Health Care That Works is both the title of this recent work by Seifert and Otteson and the goal of all of the many planners struggling to make sense of health care system reform.

The authors are affiliated with the Management Medicine Foundation in Spring Park, Minn, which exists "to promote personal care research in the medical practice setting." Seifert is a family physician who has used his practice as a demonstration model for the foundation's ideas for reform, which have collectively been packaged as "The Eagle Medical Model."

The basic contentions of the authors are familiar: that our current health care system leaves substantial numbers of Americans without adequate coverage, that costs are out of control, and that primary care medicine has not been given the financial or policy support that it needs. Primary care medicine is envisioned as encompassing the traditional biomedical needs of the patient and extending . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]






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