Health Policy and the HMO

摘要: Policy making is fraught with difficulty. The long-range results are often far afield from the original expectation. This, of course, has been conspicuous in such fields as defense, foreign affairs and economics. Serious attempts to formulate a national policy for delivery medical services relatively new United States. Foreseeing ultimate result any decision quite difficult. It was certainly not perceived that laudable Flexner reform education, aided implemented by support education through research funds federal government, would ultimately create crisis access primary care. reforming change shorten curriculum, creation "specialty" family practice genesis health professionals, nurse practitioner physician's assistant, all ameliorate effects made sixty years ago. This say wrong; inference were difficult foresee.