Mandating health care

Healthcare workers include physicians, nurses, emergency medical personnel, dental professionals and students, medical and nursing students, laboratory technicians, pharmacists, hospital volunteers, and administrative staff.

For Americans to enjoy optimal health—as individuals and as a population—they must have the benefit of high-quality health care services that are effectively coordinated within a strong public health system.

In the aggregate, these per capita expenditures account for 13.2 percent of the U. gross domestic product, about

For Americans to enjoy optimal health—as individuals and as a population—they must have the benefit of high-quality health care services that are effectively coordinated within a strong public health system.

In the aggregate, these per capita expenditures account for 13.2 percent of the U. gross domestic product, about $1.3 trillion (Levit et al., 2002).

As the committee observed in Chapter 1, American medicine and the basic and clinical research that inform its practice are generally acknowledged as the best in the world.

They may control the ability of providers to acquire desired technology and perform complex, costly procedures that are important to the hospital but increase demands on state revenues.

Finally, virtually all states have the legal responsibility to monitor the quality of health services provided in the public and private sectors.

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For Americans to enjoy optimal health—as individuals and as a population—they must have the benefit of high-quality health care services that are effectively coordinated within a strong public health system.In the aggregate, these per capita expenditures account for 13.2 percent of the U. gross domestic product, about $1.3 trillion (Levit et al., 2002).As the committee observed in Chapter 1, American medicine and the basic and clinical research that inform its practice are generally acknowledged as the best in the world.They may control the ability of providers to acquire desired technology and perform complex, costly procedures that are important to the hospital but increase demands on state revenues.Finally, virtually all states have the legal responsibility to monitor the quality of health services provided in the public and private sectors.

.3 trillion (Levit et al., 2002).

As the committee observed in Chapter 1, American medicine and the basic and clinical research that inform its practice are generally acknowledged as the best in the world.

They may control the ability of providers to acquire desired technology and perform complex, costly procedures that are important to the hospital but increase demands on state revenues.

Finally, virtually all states have the legal responsibility to monitor the quality of health services provided in the public and private sectors.