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...white-haired and bespectacled man who looks like the traditional family doctor he once was, Otis Ray ("Doc") Bowen served as a general practitioner for more than a quarter of a century in Bremen, Ind. He knows about the ravages of long illness personally as well as professionally: his first wife Beth spent the last three months of her life in a hospital before she died of bone cancer in 1981. The experience was "devastating emotionally," Bowen recalls, adding, "We have all seen how devastating illness can destroy the financial security of a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Rx for Catastrophe: Doc Bowen fights for a controversial plan | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

This is important to the crisis swirling around Doc Bowen, the first physician to command the Department of Health and Human Services, for he is now prescribing Government action against the havoc caused by catastrophic illness. Specifically, Bowen has proposed that by charging Medicare beneficiaries an extra $4.92 each month, the Medicare program could pay all hospital and doctor bills above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Rx for Catastrophe: Doc Bowen fights for a controversial plan | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...This is a social problem that has been smoldering for years," says Bowen. At present, Medicare pays hospital bills minus deductibles for the first 60 days only; after that the patient has to pay $130 a day for the next month, then $260 a day for another two months, at which point he is on his own. Patients also have to pay at least 20% of their doctor bills, which often run into many thousands of dollars. About 800,000 of the 28 million Medicare patients every year face bills higher than Bowen's proposed cap of $2,000. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Rx for Catastrophe: Doc Bowen fights for a controversial plan | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, George J. Church, Gerald Clarke, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead November 24, 1986 Vol. 128 No. 21 | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, George J. Church, Gerald Clarke, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead September 15, 1986 Vol. 128 No. 11 | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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