Dec 17, 2009

Health Care | Chapter 3 Preface

There is a place for providers, a place for consumers, a place for insurers, a place for government programs—but over 40 million uninsured Americans wonder if there is also a place for charity in the U.S. health care system of the twenty-first century. Some experts argue that the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 made doctors’ “charity cases” unnecessary, while others maintain that the managed care revolution of the 1970s made them impossible. The advent of Medicare, which gave health care coverage to all Americans over sixty-five, and Medicaid, which provided health care...