Health care policy, values, and nursing.

Dominant American values of individualism, competition, and inequality shape American health care policy. Nurses must critically analyze these basic value premises. This can be done by addressing two major flaws in American health care policy creation. First, health care policies are separated from politics and economics. Second, incremental policies are supported bereft of an analysis of their limitations and the need for structural changes if America is to have a humane and equitable health care system.