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Clinicians and Health Care Advocacy: What Comes Next?

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Whatever the trajectory of the ACA, health policy experts anticipate ongoing effort will be required to continue to improve US health care on several fronts. The major challenges include uncontrolled cost growth, widely documented idiosyncratic lapses in quality, and widespread difficulties with financial access to care. We will briefly summarize each of these current challenges below.

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  1. Center on Health Care Effectiveness, Mathematica Policy Research, 600 Maryland Ave SW Suite 550, Washington, DC, 20024, USA

    Eugene C. Rich MD

  2. Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Laura L. Sessums JD, MD

  3. Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, Washington, DC, USA

    Lyle B. Dennis MA

  4. Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    William P. Moran MD, MS

  5. General Internal Medicine, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education, Rochester, MN, USA

    Mark Liebow MD, MPH

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  1. , General Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Georgia Avenue NW 6900, Washington, 20307, USA

    Laura Sessums

  2. Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, Maryland Avenue SW 600, Washington, 20024, USA

    Lyle Dennis

  3. , General Internal Medicine, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education an, First Street SW 200, Rochester, 55905, USA

    Mark Liebow

  4. Rutledge Tower, 12th Floor, Medical University of South Carolina, Rutledge Avenue 135, Charleston, 29424-0591, USA

    William Moran

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    Eugene Rich

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Rich, E.C., Sessums, L.L., Dennis, L.B., Moran, W.P., Liebow, M. (2011). Clinicians and Health Care Advocacy: What Comes Next?. In: Sessums, L., Dennis, L., Liebow, M., Moran, W., Rich, E. (eds) Health Care Advocacy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6914-9_11

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