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This 8 page paper answers the question with a resounding no. Both sides of the debate are presented and much evidence is drawn from the present system and the philosophy of managed care. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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care system, despite the fact that many people believe that it should. Further, many uncertainties are in the air in respect to exactly how national health care reform would work
anyway (Smith, 1993). Funding such a program is a major point of contention, and it is further estimated that such would cost as much as $700 billion
(1993, p.2) over a five year period. Skepticism had been rampant concerning Clintons suggestion that administrative savings and cigarette taxes would ease the financial demands for reform (1993). In any
event, after eight years of the Clinton administration, nothing had changed much anyway. Of course, the HMOs and PPOs have taken over the health care system to a point where
it has become the system. Few remember a time when people would pay twenty percent of the visits cost. Today, people look in a book, pick a doctor and go,
as long as they bring their identity card and their co-pay. Perhaps it is not much different than what Clinton envisioned anyway.
A student writing on this subject should emphasize that America is still experiencing a health care crisis. In 1997, there were reportedly 51% ("Health Insurance," 1997, p.PG) of the 31
million Americans who have no insurance, maintaining that they do not carry it simply because they cannot afford it (1997). It is true that in most states, monthly private
health insurance premiums are comparable to a rent or mortgage payment. How many people in the United States can afford to double their rent? When insurance is lost due to
unemployment, for example, many forgo the insurance because they have no other choice. The health care battle is generally fought in the political arena. President Clinton ran his first presidential
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