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at all. The government has become more and more involved in health care policies beyond Medicare and Medicaid. Federal and state legislatures have been adopting policies that relate to health
care in one way or another. Marcus and Cravens (1997) wrote that in the 1950s, health care was about the individual but by the 1960s, health care policies began focusing
on groups of persons, i.e., certain populations. Some authors point out that health care policy in America is very different than it is in other industrialized nations - there
is no national health care system (Mechanic et al, 2005). These other nations believe in the concept of having a health population, in sharing resources (Mechanic et al, 2005). By
contrast, in the United States, there is an emphasis on self-interest and special interest groups (Mechanic et al, 2005). Thus, health care policy is political. Legislators even negotiate with each
other to adopt policies that are in tune with their own preferences (Mechanic et al, 2005). Health policy in America is embedded in social policy (Mechanic et al, 2005).
Health policy discussions are both "moralistic and ideological" (Mechanic et al, 2005). Further, they are seldom related to the evidence that exists regarding any issue (Mechanic et al, 2005). In
the 1990s, there was a focus keeping kids health (Mechanic et al, 2005). To accomplish this, local health care institutions initiated clinics at schools (Mechanic et al, 2005). This was
a local decision, thus, the policies for this were individualized to the specific organizations providing the services. The provision of food stamps for low-income families, a policy since
the 1970s, came under fire in the 1990s with opponents alleging they led to poor health because they overeat (Mechanic et al, 2005). In recent years, a transformation
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