Quality Lags at Safety-Net Hospitals
Lack of money prevents hospitals that treat the poor from improving, study finds
Posted May 13, 2008
"We ought to, as a nation, regard improvement of health care as a public good," Berwick said. "It's not just a matter of market pressures, but it's something we invest in as a society. We are a nation that needs public sector health care. We need health care to be just, and that means we need safety-net systems, and that means we need to help them."
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