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Is Single-Payer the Magic Bullet?

I wrote an article for the latest issue of the Journal of the Student National Medical Association (Spring 2007, Vol 13, No. 4) entitled, "Is Single-Payer the Magic Bullet?" There is a misprint on pg. 28 of the issue and I would like to correct it. The 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph in the Opinion section reads, "Eliminating premiums and co-payments will end health disparities." The original sentence actually read , " I do not believe that eliminating premiums and health disparities. " This is the opinion I was trying to convey and is congruent with the statements I make in the same paragraph as well as those in the proceeding paragraph. If you would like to read the original article, please see below: >>>> When my policy professor claimed that just about every physician who reads the “Proposal of the Physicians’ Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance” endorses it as the solution to the universal healthcare d