Is American Medicine on Life Support?

Why are we doing better yet feeling so much worse? A striking paradox of medicine in the United States today is that although we have made extraordinary scientific advances, the delivery of health care is widely perceived to be in crisis. Treatments for infectious diseases, cancers, heart disease, stroke, and other serious illnesses have made huge strides. Organ transplants and powerful immunosuppressive drugs are giving thousands of people a second chance. Yet forty million Americans lack medical insurance, and the funding for Medicare and Medicaid is precarious.

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