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| | --- Additional Essays --- The first five of the following links are to articles or letters previously published in journals devoted to healthcare policy. These articles illustrate the need to address a national healthcare policy, the economic need for universal enrollment, issues surrounding employment-linked health insurance, the roles of both re-insurance and universal enrollment in protecting both insurers and their clients, and an article that includes a graph from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) illustrating the outlandish relative cost of the United States' healthcare system. * * * * * * * * * * * * _________________________________ ________________________ __________ From the OECD. A single table outlining the essential policies of the Swiss healthcare system. Similar policies are shared by all multi-payer universal enrollment healthcare systems. *** *** * * * First published on-line in 2005. This may have been the article that started discussion about the concept of a public plan option in the U.S. *** |