Introduction
  A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM


 The Princeton Plan


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  To establish a public utility national corporation,   
                                                         
        like COMSTAT or the former Bell System,         
                                                          
  divorced from politics and bureaucracy and duplication  

                      with the sole                       
                                                       
   purpose of administering quality health care to all   
                                                        
        Americans by well-trained professionals and       
                                                          
                              institutions fairly compensated                                 
                       
                                                         
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 Alternatives:

*  Totally free market, free enterprise

*  A semi-public national corporation like the F.D.I.C.

*  A  national government health program like  Britain,  Canada,
        Japan, Germany, France.

5.8% GDP '89 Great Britain    95% salaried physicians

6.7% GDP '89 Japan            64% salaried physicians

12% GNP '90 U.S.A.            Fee-for-service

*  A mixture of government programs---federal,  state and local;  
commercial  for-profit insurance company coverage,  Blue  Cross--
Blue  Shield non-profit insurance coverage (the  doctor's  plan),
and self-insured coverage, i.e. our present system.


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Authors: Princeton Task Force on National Health Care
      206 Witherspoon Street
      Princeton, N. J. 08540
      Telephone: 609-921-6752