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This 3 page paper discusses the history of health care insurance including its billing and coding components. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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history of health insurance is a long one, going back possibly to "ancient China and the Norman Conquest" (Preskitt, 2008, p. 40). King Henry I of England introduced "sweeping health
care reforms to the newly combined kingdoms of England and Normandy" and soon after that, a man named "John of Essex," who was thought to be a physician (though the
term hardly fits what we know of doctors today) "was receiving an honorarium of one penny per day for his efforts," a sum approximately equal to the pay of a
solider or the stipend of a blind person (Preskitt, 2008, p. 40). Doctors have not always made the high salaries they do today. (Preskitt, 2008). Preskitts article traces the development
of the health care industry from its ancient beginnings, to the traditional fee-for-service model that was common at the beginning of the 20th century, to the complex and not always
efficient or effective system we have today. In doing so, he takes what he calls the "30,000-foot view of the history of health care reimbursement," which may seem like a
"history of failure" (Preskitt, 2008, p. 40). In the first place, insurance companies didnt want to provide health insurance and in the second, the expansion of the industry was based
on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing quality work or preventing people from getting sick in the first place (Preskitt, 2008).
At the beginning, physicians opposed insurance, Medicare, managed care and the Clinton Plan; they especially disliked Medicare because of its "episode-of-care reimbursement model,
which started out as a reasonable and customary fee profile" (Preskitt, 2008, p. 40). But over the years, the "medical industrial complex," which comprises pharmaceutical and device companies, along with
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