The Counterrevolution in Health Care Financing

American medicine is being transformed by the revolution in health financing with its emphasis on cost containment. Even as the effects of transformation are debated, Fuchs discerns the beginnings of a financing that will result in greater federal involvement in health. He outlines six factors that will bring about the counterrevolution: numbers of uninsured; taxpayer resistance to paying for the as well as for their own insurance; concern over the quality of care; perceptions that the physician patient relationship is; calls for federal help by health care corporations in financial; and demands for federal action by health care employees affected by difficulties. Fuchs concludes that the counterrevolution will have wrestle with problems of health care costs as well as with issues of access quality. (KIE abstract)