title: "Health care law and politics: failure of patient care", a view since 1995.
abstract: To eliminate the budget deficit in seven years, the Congress of the United States is engaged in revising thirty years of American health care policy. Medicaid health benefits for 30 million low-income disabled (of which 46% are children) would be turned into a state-by-state block grant, with virtually total individual state discretion to determine eligibility and covered services. Medicare, providing health care for 37 million elderly, is about to change the fee for service system into organized cluster systems of managed care.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Cutler
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008484:Medicaid / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States