According to one prominent study, adults in the United States receive the generally accepted
standard of preventive, acute, and chronic care only about 55% of the time.'The likelihood …

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 …

Unexpectedly, the use of health care services has been found to differ substantially across
subgroups of a population covered by health insurance. In the Medicare program, persons …

In the fifty years since Medicare was enacted, Congress has not, with two exceptions in the
1970s, extended Medicare beyond the elderly. In those fifty years Congress has not even …

It is a common realization that neither unconstrained markets nor our current political
institutions are capable of governing our health care system. The cost of health care is …

The recent election campaign produced an overwhelming consensus on the need for
significant reform of the US health care system. In broad terms, the aim is to improve the …

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 …

One of the ironies of modern life is that in an era of apparent mastery over our environment,
we find ourselves faced with problems, largely of our own making, that seem to defy our best …

To paraphrase Tolstoy, everyone is unhappy with Medicaid managed care in his or her own
way: physicians fret about providing care to a population who lives fluid and often unstable …

Depletion of Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is expected by the early 1990s. 1 The
complexities of the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance programs, which pay …