Providing Universal and Affordable Health Care (1989) / Chapter Skim
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Health Care for the Uninsured: The Federal Role
Health Care for the Uninsured: The Federal Role
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The fact that the Institute of Medicine has convened this series of lectures on access to health care demonstrates your concern. I commend you for this attention to an important problem.
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States and local authorities, with the help of the federal government, support other important public health programs and targeted health services delivery programs. On the private side we have the significant contribution of employment-based insurance.
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We need to increase the number of children covered by increasing the eligibility age for Medicaid for poor children. Poor people with chronic medical conditions are not now well served.
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Achieving a balance between the health care coverage needs of employees and the business concerns of employers requires thoughtful and considered attention. It is clear, however, that the current trend needs to be reversed.
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This arises, of course, because when the uninsured do receive medical care, someone picks up the tab for that care -- usually in the form of cost shifting to private insurance or charity provided by publicly owned hospitals. The legislation I am considering would impose a penalty on employers to the extent that their employees and their dependents are not provided with a minimum health benefit, as defined in the legislation.
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