Health system reform. A provider or a patient perspective?
D. N. Mirvis
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
Most important issues can be viewed from many different perspectives. In
civil law, the plaintiff and the defendant present the same event from two
vantage points and the outcome will be very different depending on which
view is adopted by the court. The same is true for health care. Physicians
(or groups of physicians) may have one view, other providers a second view,
hospitals a third view, insurance companies a fourth view, and patients a
fifth view. While the issue being deliberated is the same, the arguments
and the proposed solutions may be widely disparate.
