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Health Care Reform: What it Might Mean to Urban Public Hospitals
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 4, Number 3, 1993
- pp. 172-176
- 10.1353/hpu.2010.0315
- Article
- Additional Information
Health care reform proposals may affect public hospitals in a number of ways. To insure that such proposals benefit the underserved communities within which public hospitals operate, reform initiatives should be evaluated against 10 criteria that emphasize prevention and primary care, community health education, cost control, tort reform, and community values.