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This 8 page paper discusses three major pieces of health care legislation that were enacted at the federal level: Medicare, Medicaid and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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paper gives three examples of major legislation enacted by the federal government since 1960. Discussion It may be that the United States will never have universal health care of the
sort enjoyed by other nations; the process of reforming the current system or devising an entirely new one is likely to be vehemently opposed, either by the American people, by
Congress or by special interest groups. Among them they will block any meaningful reform. In addition, the system we have now is so convoluted that it might be impossible to
reform it in any fundamental way. What can take the place of this patchwork of company benefits, individual policies, uninsured people, fee-for-service, HMO/PPO network? No one seems to know. Despite
the fact that universal health care seems impossible, the government has passed legislation that has a huge impact in this area. Possibly the most important legislation in this regard was
the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The idea of creating a prepaid health plan was first proposed by President Truman in 1945. In a message to Congress in
November 1945, he outlined a "comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system" (The history of Medicare). The plan, which was dubbed "National Health Insurance,"
included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the needy was to financed by the federal government (The history of Medicare).
Truman wasnt able to get the legislation passed, nor was President Eisenhower, who found himself up against the AMA (between them, the AMA and the insurance industry are the
two groups most often responsible for derailing meaningful reform legislation); Eisenhowers comment on the AMA was that "the groups leadership was just plain stupid ... a little group of reactionary
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