The great health care reform debate of 1993 and 1994 was driven by two primary concerns-
the high and rising cost of health care and increasing difficulties experienced by Americans …

Among the measures debated in statehouses during the 2000 legislative sessions, none
has a greater impact on doctors' pocketbooks than those requiring insurers to pay clean or …

Medicare beneficiaries and American taxpayers both have a stake in obtaining value for
money—that is, the best quality of care possible given the resources available. Medicare …

The Medicare Trustees' 2004 report indicates that the Part A Hospital Insurance trust fund
will be exhausted by 2019. Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for physician …

Abstract Congress and the Reagan Administration, in an effort to “contain” costs, are
considering changes in the way physicians are paid when they care for Medicare patients …

“They might as well say this is Communist Russia.”—Dr. James Kennedy, Franklin,
Tennessee. Medicaid has failed in its mission to care for the poor because doctors refuse to …

The most complex issues in the field of healthcare policy can often be reduced to the simple
question “who is going to pay?” Legislatures, whether at the state or national level, are …

The United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, in its recent decision in
Massachusetts Medical Society v. Dukakis' opinion, upheld the validity of a Massachusetts …

Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to
exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which …

Medicaid gave the poor, many for the first time, the freedom to choose their health care
providers. With federal reimbursement, program recipients who had previously depended on …