The report's findings were summarized here February 16 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the complete report, titled "A Health Planning Agenda for the American People," was unveiled one week later at a press conference in Washington, D.C.
The report covers six major areas of health care policy, including medical science, and contains proposals based on 159 principles of health care. The AMA has spent $7 million on the project since it was begun in 1982, and has collected an additional $5 million from other professional societies, drug and insurance companies, foundations and nonprofit organizations involved in the study. A total of 435 people participated in the exercise.
The report's basic prescription for medical science is more money—from the federal government, which the report said has "the primary responsibility for assuming the viability of the nation's biomedical research enterprise," as well as from ...
