COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Harvard Business Review, The State News
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Neg: barriers to access still exist with uhc. Cheryl clark, state news service lead author and physician, 11. "whites, men, low-income and high-income earners report better access to care" after implementation of health care reform [in massachusetts]. Even with better insurance coverage, low-income earners were still much less likely to use preventive care screening for cancer and heart disease than other groups. But it is not sufficient to solve the healthcare crisis. We need dramatic improvements in the value of health care to obtain better health outcomes for more people at affordable costs. Without significant increases in health care value, we will inevitably experience rationing and strong administrative control of health care. Neg: quality of healthcare has less to do with insurance than the affirmative suggests, there are implicit biases in care. U of florida journal of law and public policy fall 2002.