Tracing the Evolution of American Health Care through Medicare

Autores/as

  • Craig Boyd Garner Pepperdine University School of Law
  • Judith M. Berry
  • David A. McCabe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/hcs.2011.53

Resumen

With President Obama’s health care reform currently under intense partisan scrutiny in the United States, this article is an objective resource for understanding the ways in which Medicare has historically served as a weather vane for charting the changes to the American health care system. During its nearly fifty-year tenure as the standard for the provision of medical care in the U.S., Medicare has evolved in fits and spurts, with its core structure shifting over time as the result of each decade’s economic and political climate. It is only by understanding these past revisions, both independently and in the context of the concurrent changes in other nations around the world, that we can fully comprehend the state of America’s health care system today, and make the necessary allowances to ensure that the nation’s health care will survive to provide for its constituents in the years to come.

Biografía del autor/a

Craig Boyd Garner, Pepperdine University School of Law

Craig B. Garner is an attorney and health care consultant, specializing in issues surrounding modern American health care and the ways it should be managed in its current climate of reform. Between 2002 and 2011, Craig was the Chief Executive Officer at a community hospital in Los Angeles County, California. In January 2012 Craig will offer a course on Hospital Law at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.

Judith M. Berry

Judith M. Berry has over 35 years of experience in Medicare and Medicaid cost report preparation for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other health care organizations. Judith is also an expert in cost report audits, appeals and reopening processes that follow these reports. She is currently the principal of her own firm, J. Berry and Associates Consulting, Inc. in Costa Mesa, California.

David A. McCabe

David A. McCabe is a speechwriter and copy editor specializing in issues of contemporary health care reform. He lives in Belgium.

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2011-10-11

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