Medical Indigency and the Public Health Care Crisis

Changes in the way medical care is financed in the United States have the problems of providing and financing care for the medically. Nutter describes conditions at Chicago's Cook County Hospital to the financial and delivery burdens that have fallen upon public serving a patient population without adequate health insurance. Chicago's public and private sectors are working together on the's public health care problems, Nutter contends that such local efforts not enough. He argues that health insurance for everyone is the solution medical indigency. Until national health insurance becomes politically and feasible, the answer may be a comprehensive package of insurance funded with public and private monies. Nutter concludes his essay an outline of five options that could be combined to provide health care all Americans. (KIE abstract)