Medicare and Senior Citizens

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"In 1989, in response to growing public concern about spiraling health-care costs, and particularly "catastrophic" costs--bills for major procedures that could run into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, potentially bankrupting even well-to-do families--Congress passed the first substantial social "safety-net" program to be enacted since the Great Society years of the 1960s. The Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 called for an expansion of the Medicare publicly-funded health-care system to provide senior citizens with protection against catastrophic costs. It was an expansion of benefits for which senior-citizens' organizations had vigorously lobbied (Longman, 1989).

The public response among the elderly (who alone were covered) was, however, far from enthusiastic. The coverage was ... "

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• Essay # 61194 : "The Crisis in Medicare"

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