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A 5 page paper discussing the changes
occurring in the health care industry over the past generation and how those changes have
affected health care policy. Specific example is that of a minor's election to abortion without
parents' knowledge or consent, which has brought us a situation in which insurers are able to
know more about minors' activities than are parents. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCarepol.rtf
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there that has not, either personally or on behalf of family or friends, had to confront the indifference, the exorbitant cost, the mind-boggling complexity, and sometimes even the malevolence and
authoritarianism of modern medicine?" (p. 52). Who, indeed. It has been little more than a century since all doctors were surgeons, and aptly referred to as "Sawbones."
They did little else, and they also did not enjoy the great respect and social standing so common today. Of course there have
been great advances in medical and scientific knowledge in the ensuing century, and there have been myriad changes in health care in the past 20 years (Anonymous, 1999). Not
all the changes are viewed necessarily as being good, but we as a society were faced with the necessity of making changes that would allow health care to remain accessible
to most of the nations people, rather than watching it evolve to a luxury only for the most wealthy of our citizens. Accompanying policies also have not met with
great favor, and many, such as abortion among minors, carry more than only medical implications. Changes in Health Care
Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occurred until the time of its publication, but
the book was published before the latest wrenching changes in health care occurred. Background included in Starrs (1983) work is useful in analyzing some of the changes in todays
health care organization, in that he traces reasons for changes in perceptions of the medical community. He notes that doctors were little more than practitioners of some mystical applications
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