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A 9 page paper discussing access to healthcare for the rural elderly, which is the result of the combination of a variety of factors, each of which represents a complex issue. Certainly issues will need to be resolved before the greatest wave of the baby boomers enter retirement. Currently there are good intentions and much spending, but relatively little fruit emerging from the efforts. Includes information from the 2009 "omnibus" spending appropriation. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSpubHlthEld.rtf
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Our automated system accepts only rtf files and no graphics, so it has to be removed from this version. Introduction Access to
healthcare for the rural elderly is the result of the combination of a variety of factors, each of which represents a complex issue. As the first of baby boomers
already have entered retirement age with the great wave yet to come, "now" is an appropriate time to rectify the issues that exist. Background
Many issues have equal effect on rural and urban practitioners and elderly patients. Though there may be a higher number of practitioners in urban areas and transportation may
(or may not) be less of an issue, changes in Medicare rules and social programs affect virtually all elderly patients across geographical lines though those in rural areas are most
negatively affected. Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues in healthcare in recent decades. We have seen
the advent and growth of health maintenance organizations (HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. Though there has
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that perhaps access to health care is
not a right as has been assumed, but rather a privilege that belongs only to those who can pay for their own care or arrange for a third-party payer to
pay the bulk of the cost. Insurance and Medicare The advent and growth of health insurance was a great advance at the time,
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