Richard Nixon- Healthcare... a business or what?

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2012-03-18 8:06 am

I would like to know- who, what, when, where and why?

I have a research paper due in sometime. My professor insisted I write about the change Nixon made in Health-care. More about the private sector. About the business between Doctors and insurance companies negotiating about prices to aim to a profit, not necessarily caring about the patient/client.

I would like to have a starter point, and I don't know much about this and where to begin. As much info will help me head to the right direction.

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Mr. Smartypants

2012-03-18 8:14 am

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Nixon did two things. One thing was, before they had something called 'prepaid health care'. It was an alternate to insurance. Nixon pushed through legislation renaming these operations: Health Maintenance Organizations. Later the fed. govt. actively helped to herd people into 'managed care', expecting this to save money. But it didn't really. What it did do is to award ownership of our entire health care industry to a handful of huge corporations. Before that, doctors, clinics, labs, and hospitals were all independent.

The other thing was Nixon was planning to create a national health insurance program, similar to a single payer program. Ironically, liberals and unions were against it. Some people think Nixon would have gotten it passed if he hadn't had to quit.

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