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needs of the patient while at the same time seeking cost effective caregivers to meet the insurance companies’ fiscal needs. This could be accomplished by making participation in a group (HMO) an option, thus making it necessary for the HMO to offer convenient service to the patient to stay in business.
The federal government is already involved in our national health care to the tune of nearly $400 billion annually, yet over 30 million people receive no coverage. Medicare and Medicaid consumed nearly $190 billion in 1992 while sporadically serving approximately 60 million people, most of whom depended on other private insurance to maintain sufficent coverage. Elementary math indicates how inefficient these programs truly must be. Under a plan offering total inclusion, through private sector insurance, everyone would have full coverage at a cost much lower than the cumbersome public assistance programs of today. Most importantly, it would offer continuity of care.
Senator Moynihan said recently that Medicare will be the target of further budget reductions. How can health care reformers possibly be considering a plan that calls for increasing the financial involvement of government in health care when we are now being forced to cut the programs already in existence, especially in view of our huge national deficit?
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