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Norbert Gleicher, MD

JAMA. 1991;265(18):2388-2390.

Abstract
Any attempt to address the problem of more than 30 million uninsured and 25 million seriously underinsured citizens in the United States has to be able to offer medical services to this 20% of the population in a cost-neutral way for the US economy, since present economic conditions do not permit further expansion in health care costs. A medical system compartmentalized by medical specialty should be able to save approximately 20% of present-day health care expenditures within each specialty, which then can be used to provide the necessary coverage. Some suggestions are made as to how such cost savings can be achieved. Only an effort spearheaded by physicians can achieve the outlined targets, since, otherwise, physician efforts will easily subvert such attempts. A physician initiative that could solve the crisis would reestablish physicians as leaders in determining national health care policy and should consequently improve the recently disappointing societal image of the profession.

(JAMA. 1991;265:2388-2390)

Author Affiliations
From the Center for Health Policy Study, Foundation for Reproductive Medicine Inc, and the Center for Human Reproduction, Chicago, Ill.

Footnotes
This article is the fourth in a new column. The reader is referred to the May 15,1991, issue, which will be dedicated to caring for the uninsured and underinsured.

Reprint requests to Center for Health Policy Study, Foundation for Reproductive Medicine Inc, 750 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL 60610(Dr Gleicher).

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