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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2002;288:2397.

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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has mapped a plan to increase the quality of health care available to 100 million people in the United States through the federal government's six major health care programs: Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Department of Defense TRICARE program, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service.

By drawing up common standards and pooling purchasing power, the programs could "set the gold standard for quality care," said Gilbert Omenn, MD, PhD, a University of Michigan School of Medicine professor and chair of the IOM committee that issued the report.

The sheer size of the programs, which provide care to one third of US residents, means that any improvements in quality should spill over into the private health care market, said Omenn. The IOM panel hopes that, eventually, a new set of federal standards could come to replace the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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