National Health care Expenditures
60 years of increased Federal intervention into health care
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1960: Kerr-Mills Act to cover health care for poor and rural Americas
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1965: Medicare and Medicaid (fee for service system)
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1965: Graduate medical education funding (increase # of doctors)
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1971: Economic Stabilization Program (wage and price controls)
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1983: Hospital Prospective Payment System (hospital payment reform)
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1992: Physician Fee Schedule (doctor payment reform)
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1997: Children’s Health Insurance Program
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2003: Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
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2006: Medicare Part D
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2010: Affordable Care Act
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2019: High costs, lack of transparency, less individual control