Himmelstein David U, Woolhandler Steffie
Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge MA 02139, USA.
Urol Clin North Am. 2009 Feb;36(1):57-62, vi. doi: 10.1016/j.ucl.2008.08.007.
The authors advocate a fundamental change in health care financing-national health insurance (NHI). NHI would reorient the way we pay for care, bringing the hundreds of billions now squandered on malignant bureaucracy back to the bedside. NHI could restore the physician-patient relationship, offer patients a free choice of physicians and hospitals, and free physicians from the hassles of insurance paperwork.
作者主张对医疗保健融资进行根本性变革——实行国家医疗保险（NHI）。国家医疗保险将重新调整我们支付医疗费用的方式，把目前浪费在恶性官僚作风上的数千亿美元重新带回病床边。国家医疗保险可以恢复医患关系，为患者提供选择医生和医院的自由，并使医生摆脱保险文书工作的麻烦。
