Clinton health plan means to you
Shortly after President Clinton presented his vision of health reform for Congress and the nation, Medical Economics Editor Stephen K. Murata and six health experts received in Philadelphia, to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the proposal, its chances on Capitol Hill, and its immediate effects and long-distance doctors. For the discussion of the session, see page 46, often surprising for their comments and recommendations, read on.Stephen K. Murata: Let us start with an overview of the Clinton plan - the big screen. Bob, could you describe the motivations behind the plan?
Robert A. Berenson, MD: The basic idea is that health problems are fundamentally linked and that only a comprehensive solution can be extended address. It was one of the new terminal of the first central decisions: a gradual approach that flagrantly with the most problems, for example, if a change of rules so that insurers could not what raisins — Others, to use the remaining problems, and could even worse. That is why this proposal is 240 pages. It tries to reach in all areas of health care.
Murata: Bill, you saw a quantity of this type of legislation, return to their work within the Johnson administration bill led to what Medicare. If the plan Clinton achieved?
William L. Kissick, MD: I would like to see it works, but I’m not sure he can, and I think it will take years before we can fully appreciate the outcome. In 1964, when I worked with Wilbur Cohen on the final draft of illness, he said: “Never forget - health policy is 10 per cent of legislation and the implementation of 90 per cent . “Regardless of legislation, now that we have received, we will monitor implementation for more than three decades or more, as we were in Medicare, for the past three decades.
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