A review of 'The Health Security Act of 1993'.
The Health Security Act of 1993, which is now before Congress, holds the potential to effect major changes in the way health care is delivered in this country and in how that delivery is financed. This article reviews the principal provisions proposed to be contained in the act (as presented in the preliminary summary released in September 1993) and offers suggestions regarding the issues that hospital financial managers should begin addressing now.
Peterson
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Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, Washington, DC.
Brownawell
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