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A 3 page paper discussing the sociological influences inhibiting efforts to find a workable solution to the Medicare crisis. Government involvement in health care has the effect of controlling the entire industry in terms of cost, because private insurers base their assessments of “normal and customary” charges on those used by Medicare. Ultimately, the same tools employed in efforts to hold the line on cost increases are the same items that drive overall cost increases in health care. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSsocInfGovtOrg.rtf
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Medicare was born of noble ideas and certainly retains a place in the health care of the nations elderly, disabled and indigent. It has come to control all
of U.S. health care, however, a result that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually
rules all of American health care by virtue of its influence on private insurers. It directly influences the degree to which health care costs rise in that it establishes
what it will and will not pay for goods and services. Medicare Managed Cares fee schedule provides guidelines for private insurers, and they set their acceptable fees at similar
levels. There is intense and ongoing debate about the future of Medicare, the need for reform and the shape that such reform should
take. Policy makers need to be considering the economic implications of their decisions. Sociological Influences The most obvious conclusion that has come
of the ongoing debate in health care is that we need to first define whether it is a right or a privilege. There are those who maintain that health
care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars (Marmor, 2000); far more subscribe to the view that access to health care is a basic
right of all people. Regardless of the debate over whether health care is a right or a privilege, all generally accept that we
as a country need to ensure that our elderly and indigent have access to adequate health care. This view directly affects both those paying for Medicare and those using
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