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Pages 160-162

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... In describing the crisis of AIDS, teenage pregnancy and Alzheimer's disease, I cannot help but be greatly disturbed by the fact that these are minuscule in proportion to the numbers of people in this country who do not have adequate health care. More importantly, most of the other recommendations in the report to improve our public health system can never be completely implemented without addressing the indigent care problem.
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... . when in many cases the problem is not truly structural." The federal government is structured in a way that allows "a clearly defined national focal point for public health leadership." Whether that leadership is exercised appropriately is more frequently a political perception than an · .
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