Luxury Primary Care and Universal Health Care
Articles, slide shows, and lecture outlines re luxury care (including involvement of academic medical centers) and universal health care/single payer system.
Slide Shows:
Comparing Health Care Systems – US and Developed Countries, 2009 – Steven Miles
Slide show comparing US and developed countries health care systems in terms of outcomes, costs, etc., by Dr Steven Miles
*Health Care – US and Worldwide
Overview of health care in the US and the world, including what constitutes health, major health problems, and how health care is financed
Health Care Reform – What it Means to Us – Shaffer and Brenner
Overview of the Obama plan and ways to move forward, by Ellen Shaffer and Joe Brener of EQUAL/Center for Policy Analysis
*Luxury Care & Academic Medicine
Comprehensive version of slide show covering the links between luxury care clinics and academic medical centers, along with a general overview of boutique care
Luxury Care & Academic Medicine short version
Short version of slide show covering the links between luxury care clinics and academic medical centers
Physicians in retainer practice: national survey results – Wynia, 2005
Slide show with results of survey of physicians in retainer practice, Dr Matthew Wynia, 2005
US health care system in international perspective – Steven Miles
Slide show comparing costs and outcomes between the US and other health care systems, by Dr Steven Miles
Articles:
Caring for underserved speech 2003.doc
Outline of speech advocating universal health care coverage, 2003
health insurance – jobs for justice rally 3-04.doc
Outline of speech advocating universal health care
jobs for justice – universal hlth ins speech 2004.doc
Outline of speech advocating universal health care
*Luxury Medical Care – Ideological Debates in Family Medicine.pdf
Book chapter opposing the development of luxury practices
lux p care – NEJM lte.doc
Letter re luxury primary care and universal health care coverage in the US
luxury p care and acad med – JGIM.pdf
Article covering the link between luxury primary care clinics and academic medical centers
Medical Tourism and Luxury Care Ltr – Southern Med J
Letter re medical tourism and recruitment of wealthy foreigners to luxury U.S. practices - Southern Med J
Retainer Practice – Virtual Mentor.doc
Article on the ethics of retainer practice
Coming Soon:
Donohoe MT. Elements of professionalism for a physician considering the switch to a retainer practice. In Professionalism in Medicine: The Case-based Guide for Medical Students, Editors: Spandorfer, Pohl, Rattner, and Nasca (Cambridge University Press, 2009, in press)
External Links:
Association for Prevention Teaching and Research: www.aptrweb.org
Center for Policy Analysis: http://www.centerforpolicyanalysis.org/
Corporations and Health: http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/index.php
Everybody In Nobody Out: http://www.EverybodyInNobodyOut.org
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group: http://hmprg.org/
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group blog: http://hmprg.typepad.com/health-medicine-hmprg/
National Physicians Alliance: http://www.npalliance.org/
Physicians for a National Health Program: http://www.pnhp.org/
Right to Health Care: http://www.RightToHealthCare.org