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cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...

income which is far from adequate, they sometimes have to literally make the decision whether to eat or buy the drugs which have b...

then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of legal directive or its enf...

the long run, providing bariatric surgery is the most efficient answer to this problem as it can result in tremendous net savings ...

In 2003 the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (also known as MMA) passed amid a lot of hoopla and cel...

the consideration of dozens of microeconomic systems that operate as a function of the national macroeconomic picture. It is often...

SECURITY Considering what will happen to the millions of Social Security recipients if current issues are not ironed out, t...

a minimum value hurdle met, so avoid wasting time on small claims. In Medicare cases where there is a denial as a result of a mi...

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

Obamacare has consumed discussions on American health care legislation in the last years. Obamacare will have significant impacts...

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

for those over 65. For many people, it is their only means of obtaining a doctors care. This paper discusses Medicare as well as m...

In five pages this paper examines the 1995 and 1996 time period in a consideration of Medicare and the continuing political debate...

In ten pages this paper examines the future costs involved in Medicare and the need for reform program applications. Eleven sourc...

This paper compares the United States to other countries of the world with regard to payment transfers within the welfare system w...

In twelve pages this paper examines how Medicare affects managed care programs. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

In ten pages this paper discusses Medicare and the financial problems associated with supplying pharmaceutical benefits across the...

In fifteen pages this paper examines Medicare in an assessment of fee for services vs. managed care plans. Fifteen sources are ci...

This fifty page paper provides an extensive examination of ambulatory payment systems development in the environment of modern hea...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars (Marmor, 2000); far more subscribe to the view that access to healt...

American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

that a means test would be supported by Democrats but that is far from the case. The article points out that Medicare is embraced ...

or may not have a market, home health care is a service that always has a market of some size. The business is a proven one, one ...

to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

influences the degree to which health care costs rise in that it establishes what it will and will not pay for goods and services....

America, not the least of which is hospice care. Even funding sources of the magnitude of Medicare and private insurers have come ...