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Published on: 11/8/2008
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Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH Mandating insurance provides neither a guarantee of affordable insurability, nor actual medical services, nor does it resolve the problems of the tremendously expensive administrative overhead and system inefficiencies of the private insurance based system.
Legislated mandates for health insurance have been tried in Massachusetts (1988, 2006), Oregon (1989), Minnesota (1992), Tennessee (1992), Vermont (1993), Washington State (1993) and none have worked.
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- CaPA member Jeoffry Gordon, MD, MPH, San Diego, read on Marketplace on National Public Radio As an employer and a family doctor, I have an intimate familiarity with problems in the financing of medical care.