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This 3 page paper considers how great an impact external factors have on the policies that are put in place with regard to the medical community. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and similar organizations), the industry has grown even more complicated. This paper considers how great an impact external factors have on the policies that are put in place with
regard to the medical community. Discussion The information for this discussion is taken from two articles, "Public Roles for the Medical Profession in the United States: Beyond Theories of Decline
and Fall" by Rosemary Stevens; and a piece from the AMA entitled "For Physicians Only: What the New Medicare Law Means to You." The title of Stevenss piece is
provocative, since it tells us that most of the discussions about the current state of medicine in the United States view it as being in crisis. Lets examine these
more carefully. Its actually easier to start with AMA article, because the relationship between the external environment and medical regulations is quite clear here: this is a discussion of
the new Medicare rules and regulations. The changes in Medicare regulations were enacted by the Bush administration, and would appear to have been made for political reasons, not medical
ones. That is, there was no great outcry from either the public or practicing physicians demanding that the regulations be changed; i.e., there was no "grassroots" movement (as far
as Im aware) forcing a change on the Medicare system; changes were imposed on Medicare from the outside. And by changing the regulations, the government changed the requirements for
physicians and thus imposed significant changes on the medical community. Changes outlined in the article include a Medicare "drug discount card program"; the much debated prescription drug benefit; and changes
in the Medicare managed care program (For Physicians Only, 2005). However, the "most immediate effect" of the new law is to increase payments to physicians by 1.5%, despite the
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