Health+Care

=Curing the Health Care System=
 * 1) Summarize the "Historical Perspective" of this issue. (see timeline at the bottom of pages 908 - 909 as well)
 * 2) What challenges face the Medicare program?
 * 3) How can patient rights' be protected?
 * 4) How can uninsured children get health coverage?


 * #1. The main idea of the " Historical Perspective" is that National health insurance for Americans was first proposed in 1949 by President Harry S. Truman. Also Many other presidents tried to proposed more plans to insure more coverage on health care insurance. Then in 1996 there was an act passed, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that removed all concerns. It gave all new employees who had health insurance before changing jobs.
 * #2. Some challenges that face the Medicare program is that of the protect patients' rights and the need to expand health coverage to the ranks of the uninsured, and the cost of prescription drugs coverage.
 * #3. Patient rights' could be protected by tax credits for individuals purchasing insurance and association health plans for small businesses.
 * #4. The government developed the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide funding to states so that they could offer health coverage to children of low-income people who earn too much to qualify for medicaid.