Dec 18, 2009

Health Care | Universal Health Care Is the Best Solution for Uninsured Americans

In the following viewpoint, Robert L. Ferrer argues that America’s lack of a national health care system has created an institutionalized system of exclusion for those too poor to afford medical insurance. The author maintains that as this “system of no-system” becomes more firmly entrenched, the few resources locally available to poor patients will become even more fragmented and difficult to access. A universal health care system, he contends, is the only way to provide for the 39 million uninsured Americans suffering without proper health care. Robert L. Ferrer is a physician at...