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A 9 page paper assessing current health care policy, forces that maintain the status quo and suggestions for improving policy. The bottom line is that ultimately, Medicare controls the course of most of health care in the US, including precipitating much of the cost increase against which all parties appear to be powerless. The paper identifies forces and stakeholders to suggest that Medicare enlist the private sector to assist in designing changes. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSmedHlthPol.rtf
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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. It is overdue for revamping.
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. Medicares 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. As politicians haggle over private interests and noble ideals that no one can afford, Medicares influence on health care increasingly affects microeconomic choices of households and
businesses, as well as the larger national economy. Problem Identification This is an unintended result of Medicare, and one that is difficult to
resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing age. Care providers
cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be
"normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safety net have been accused of bilking the system and taking advantage
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