Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who suffer because of inadequate distribution of medical care, the poor and the black have always suffered the most. Before the government invented its patchwork medical insurance plans, the poor simply couldn't pay for decent care. And now, even with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, coverage is usually not complete enough to meet basic medical needs...
...response to the medical crisis, the government has unloaded its standard fiscal arsenal. Through programs like Medicaid, it has hoped that it could give people money and let them buy their health -- as easily as hungry people could buy a loaf of bread. But the money does no good when the medical care isn't available...
Faced with the pressing demand of healing its sick people, the Federal government has responded with a standard tactic. The government has unloaded the federal fiscal arsenal--through programs like Medicare and Medicaid--and hoped that the poor would be able to buy their health, much as hungry people could health, much as hungry people could use government money to buy a loaf of bread. The simplistic analysis, however, ignores the root disease of the medical system. The money can't do any good when the care is not available...
...their wallowing fiscal deaths, Medicare and Medicaid may have made a valuable contribution. Many medical administrators regard Medicare as the final piece of argument needed in the case for a new system. As the government's programs have shown, money is futile unless coupled with long-range plans to improve distribution...
...unconcerned with his patients' needs. Physicians' fees have risen, but not out of proportion with the cost of living. Their disproportionate increase in income in recent years is due in large part to a massive increase in their patient load. This is due to rising population, Medicare, Medicaid, and, most importantly, to increasing patient respect and confidence in the physician. The fact that more physicians have not been produced by the medical schools is not because of A.M.A. obstructionism but because of the inability of private schools to finance additions to their facilities at an estimated cost...