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A 10 page overview of the history behind Medicare. The author asserts that to find a solution to
Medicare's current problems we must examine both the similarities and differences between the era in which Medicare was initiated and today's
environment. We must be cognizant of just who the current stakeholder is and constantly remind ourselves of how important they are. To fully
assess Medicare and the potential impact its fall would have it is prudent to obtain input from these stakeholders, evaluate that input, and initiate measures which have the most likelihood of stabilizing the top heavy system and halting its rapid spiral to the bottom. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPmedic2.rtf
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our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these people have depended, however, seems headed for certain doom. Most predict
that this system will collapse by the year 2008 (Cocco, 1999) or 2010 (U.S. Newswire, 1998). Like many other public programs, Medicare/Medicaid faces an increasing number of recipients and
a decreasing number of contributors. The Medicare/Medicaid system has additional problems as well, however. These problems revolve around the rising cost of health care and the progressively increasing
average age of life. There are possible solutions to the potential bankruptcy of the Medicare/Medicaid system currently available. To identify those solutions we must examine both the similarities
and differences between the era in which Medicare was initiated and todays environment. We must be cognizant of just who the current stakeholder is and constantly remind ourselves of
how important they are. To fully assess Medicare and the potential impact its fall would have it is prudent to obtain input from these stakeholders, evaluate that input, and
initiate measures which have the most likelihood of stabilizing the top heavy system and halting its rapid spiral to the bottom. We must use a community approach to Medicares
problem, a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates not only medical issues but also economics and social fact (Lee and Estes, 2003). One viewpoint regarding
saving the Medicare/Medicaid system for future generations identifies only three options: cutting costs, increasing premiums, or raising options (Johnson, 1999). While each of these options has their own
merit they are time intensive, they offer long term solutions to the problem but solutions which also entail measures which are disturbing to many. There are other options which
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