A Case of Neglect: Why Health Care Is Getting Worse, Even Though Medicine Is Getting Better

February 2004 A Case of Neglect: Why Health Care Is Getting Worse, Even Though Medicine Is Getting Better Medicine in the United States is enjoying a surge of innovation and creativity that promises continuing improvements in everyday life for millions of people but it is being thwarted by federal and state health care systems incapable of delivering those improvements fairly and consistently to much of the American public. To be blunt, Americans are living with first-rate medicine and a third-rate health care system. And the problem is getting worse instead of better . . .