The Troubled Road to Universal Health Care, ,

In our country the increasing commercialization of medicine is taking control of our medical school faculties, hospitals, and education. There is an overemphasis on health care efficiency, with a dramatic decrease in the commitment to research, an increase in the cost of medical education and resultant staggering student debt, an increasing number of medically uninsured, and an ever-widening gap between the best that American medicine can offer and that which the indigent receive. [Goldfrank LR: The troubled road to universal health care. Ann Emerg Med December 1997;30:737-738.]