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A Call for Papers

Drummond Rennie, MD; Richard M. Glass, MD

JAMA. 1999;282:2262.

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For the United States, the decade of the 1990s has been marked by unprecedented prosperity. By every economic indicator, more Americans have jobs, fatter paychecks, and more investments than ever before. But there is another boom in progress. New US Census Bureau figures show that the number of Americans locked out of the health care system because they have no health insurance, far from improving along with the economy, has increased by a million over the past year; 16.3% of the population (44 million Americans) now lack health insurance.¹

The causes are many, including increasing health care costs and the costs of health insurance, and welfare reform moving many out of Medicaid and into low-paying jobs without insurance. The result is a large segment of the population that is working productively but effectively lacks the elements of care. And the ranks of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Dr Rennie is Deputy Editor (West) and Dr Glass is Interim Coeditor, JAMA.

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