Improving Access to Care for the Underserved
State-Supported Volunteerism as a Successful Component
Kim E. Barnhill, MS;
Leslie M. Beitsch, MD, JD;
Robert G. Brooks, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:2177-2181.
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INTRODUCTION
Despite unprecedented prosperity and unexpectedly large federal budget
surpluses during the 1990s, the problem of providing health care to the uninsured
has continued to expand. The ranks of the uninsured have increased from 37.5
million in 19921 to an estimated 44 million
in 1997.2 The unsuccessful attempt at health
care reform in 1993 signaled a policy retreat at the federal level. Rather
than the sweeping reform that was expected, growth in government-sponsored
health insurance coverage would be, at best, incremental. Enactment of the
Title XXI Children's Health Insurance Program, as part of the Balanced Budget
Act of 1997, was such an incremental measure. With a vacuum in health care
policy leadership at the federal level, the baton was handed to the states.
Responsibility and authority for health and welfare under the US Constitution
is allocated between the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
FLORIDA'S VOLUNTEER HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PROGRAM
VOLUNTEERISM IN OTHER STATES
CONCLUSIONS
From the Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee.
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