(Fuchs1998) Many critical factors associated with poor health may be outside the health care system. Universally, the poor are sicker, and inequalities in health persist in industrialized countries with universal financing systems designed to provide equal access. ... The increasing age of the population provides several challenges to the health care system. ... The increasing proportion of the elderly results in fewer younger persons to care for the aged or pay into the system. ... While physician and other profession/provider buy-in is crucial to an equitable system and certainly to good qua...

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