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a great deal of hand-wringing on both sides of Congress, a mess of misinformation floating around in the media and during the summer of 2009 and a ton of compromise
on the part of President Barack Obama. The bill itself is a behemoth of a lot of requirements, including mandates that every American citizen be insured, that health care exchanges
be set up, that taxes be levied on certain entities to get these things paid for and so on. Though the idea behind
the Patient Affordable Care Act is laudable, and its terrific that everyone will be insured by 2015 (or face some kind of penalty or fine), even those supporting the bill
acknowledge that its just a step, and only a really small one at that, toward fixing whats wrong with the U.S. healthcare system. Getting insurance out to every man, woman
and child in the United States is only part of the battle, and a small part at that. The real problem is the way in which healthcare itself is delivered.
Until the current model of healthcare delivery is changed, real reform wont occur. Jarvis (2001) points out that, at one point, healthcare delivery
took place mainly in acute-care facilities; in other words, hospitals. Much of health care was delivered in these hospitals by doctors who were "on staff" at these institutions. More often
than not, these physicians and other health care providers had their offices either on the hospital campus, or nearby. This model sprung up
during the latter part of the 19th century as medical technology began improving quality of life. We went from the family practitioner who made house calls to deliver babies or
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