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A 10 page research paper focusing on the U.S. Health Care System. The effects of reforms on physicians, families, seniors, health care administrators are discussed. Managed Care Organizations and HMOs are explained with a discussion of the increase in their numbers. One particular HMO is described as an example for the reader. An extensive bibliography is included.
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the Medicare program, the Medicaid program, and run-away medical costs. Costs include all aspects: doctors, prescriptions, lab work, X-rays, hospital rooms, hospital supplies, and all other costs associated with a
stay in the hospital. Besides these concerns, there is the reality of the Medicare program being cheated. Television news shows from 60 Minutes to 20/20 have presented data and revealing
hidden cameras evidence of some of the outrageous prices Medicare gets billed, even being billed for no services. Probably the group that receives the most passion in terms of inadequate
health care is children. Its impossible for anyone but the most cold-hearted to not feel something when a child is hurt or sick.
I. THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH CARE REFORM Some of the issues brought up by Hillary Rodman Clinton and President Clinton include: an
employees ability to carry medical benefits with him or her when they leave an employer, particularly when the separation is a lay-off or down-sizing. As it was, when you lost
your job you lost all benefits. Family providers could find themselves facing thousands of dollars in medical bills if a member of the family became very sick, required surgery, or
even broke a bone. Medial bills of this sort have wiped people out and put them in bankruptcy (Dentzer 1992). Reforming the medical
care system in the United States is not a new idea, far from it. Every president for the last twenty years has talked about it at one time or another,
often exclusively in terms of the Medicare program. Mrs. Clinton as the head of the reform proposal, however, addressed far reaching aspects of the system. A National Health Care System
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