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...Administration is also seriously considering price controls, at least in the short run, on insurers, health-care providers, and prescriptions. Over the long term, it is leaning toward a kind of indirect price control on doctors called a "budgeted fee for service." The reformers envision a health-care system in which almost every physician in the country will become part of a network, practicing under caps and within a preset budget. Even if not part of a formal health-maintenance organization, groups of doctors will join together to offer their services through a health alliance. In return, the doctors will...
...Clinton plan, Americans will join large insurance pools and will be able to choose among several different types of health plans, depending on how big a share of the costs of care they are willing to pay. Some will join health-maintenance organizations, which treat patients for a flat fee. Others will sign up with a group of doctors and hospitals. Most people will be able to choose among the doctors working for the plans, but that does not mean everybody will be able to continue seeing the doctors they know...
...more generous than most people's current coverage. It will probably cover mental health, dental benefits, hospitalization, outpatient care, doctor visits, annual checkups, prescription drugs, prenatal care, preventive medicine such as mammograms and more. While the details are still somewhat vague, most patients are likely to pay a low fee for each service, while the health plan picks up the balance. All medical care will be budgeted; then doctors and other providers can determine prices to make the budget work...
Most people will pay more for coverage than they do now, in part through new taxes and fees, and much of that money will go to provide care for less fortunate Americans. Luxury care will become very rare, since almost no coverage will pay for it. Nearly all doctors will probably be salaried employees of plans, and the rest will operate under a government-imposed fee schedule. As more family doctors and clinics spring up in neglected rural areas and scruffy urban neighborhoods, many Americans will find basic medical care readily available for the first time...
...form of a tribunal, accusing him of disrupting the membership drive and damaging Perot's image. "If names had been stones," Wells said, "I'd be black and blue or dead." Though the panel ruled that Wells could remain in the organization, Bost later refunded Wells' $15 membership fee and a $100 contribution he had made. The Perot alumni network depicted Wells as a martyr for the cause...