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Using the Internet Explorer browser, go to http://www.amednews.com/article/20100802/opinion/308029956/5/ and read "A prescription for health care system stakeholders". (Link does not open in Mozilla Firefox.) If Mozilla Firefox is set as your default browser, copy and paste the link into a different web browser to access the article. Here Dr. Cecil Wilson, President of the American Medical Association, provides his "prescriptions" for key stakeholders in U.S. health care reform. Dr. Wilson's 30+ years of medical leadership has given him a broad view of this topic.

Part 1: Discuss Dr. Wilson's "prescription" for the private sector, business, and government. Do you concur with this prescription? Why, or why not?

Part 2: Discuss Dr. Wilson's "prescription" for patients, medical students, and physicians. Do you concur with this prescription? Why, or why not?

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Part 1: Discuss Dr. Wilson's "prescription" for the private sector, business, and government. Do you concur with this prescription? Why, or why not?

Yes, I concur with Dr. Wilson's prescription for the private sector, business, and government. One reason is because these entities can get caught up in bureaucracy and an every man or woman for himself or herself attitude that they leave the most vulnerable behind. Dr. Wilson probably knows this all too well and has seen how this can happen first hand since he has been in the medical field for some many years. He issues such a prescription as a "reminder" that these entities "are more than just businesses" and that "the needs of their ...

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