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Physicians start to feel the financial pinch from CMS’s regulations.

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Children under 26 can stay under parents health care policy

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Health Care Cost and Utilization Report tracks changes in health care prices, utilization, and spending for people younger than 65 covered by employer-sponsored health insurance

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President Obama signs the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 .

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President Obama establishes Office of Health Reform to coordinate administrative efforts on national health reform.

The Children's Health Insurance Program is reauthorized, providing states with additional funding.

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Presidential campaign focuses early on national health reform, overshadowed later by housing crisis and economic downturn, yet remains a key pocketbook issue throughout the campaign. Both major party candidates announce comprehensive health reform proposals.

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Senators Wyden and Bennett introduce the Healthy Americans Act. Proposal would require individuals to obtain private health insurance coverage through state health insurance purchasing pools. The long-standing favorable tax treatment of employersponsored insurance premiums would be eliminated. Legislation gains some bipartisan support.

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One month following Massachusetts, Vermont passes comprehensive health care reform also aiming for near-universal coverage. In addition to creating the Catamount Health Plan for uninsured residents, the plan focuses on improving overall quality of care and the management of chronic conditions through the Blueprint for Health.

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Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 makes significant changes to Medicaid related to premiums and cost sharing, benefits, and asset transfers.

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Medicare Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) passes, creating a voluntary, subsidized prescription drug benefit under Medicare, administered exclusively through private plans, both stand-along prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans.

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President Bush launches Health Center Growth Initiative significantly expanding the number of community health centers serving the medically underserved.

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Health care costs are on the rise again.

Medicare is viewed by some as unsustainable under the present structure and must be "rescued".

Changing demographics of the workplace lead many to believe the employer-based system of insurance can't last.

Human Genome Project to identify all of the more than 100,000 genes in human DNA is expected to be completed a full two years ahead of schedule, in 2003.

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Health care costs rise at double the rate of inflation.

Federal health care reform legislation fails again to pass in the U.S. Congress.

By the end of the decade there are 44 million Americans, 16 % of the nation, with no health insurance at all.

By June 1990, 139,765 people in the United States have HIV/AIDS, with a 60 percent mortality rate.

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Corporations begin to integrate the hospital system

Under President Reagan, Medicare shifts to payment by diagnosis instead of by treatment.

Growing complaints by insurance companies that the traditional fee-for-service method of payment to doctors is being exploited.

payments to doctors become more common.

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President Richard Nixon renames prepaid group health care plans as health maintenance organizations

Healthcare costs are escalating rapidly,

President Nixon's plan for national health insurance rejected by liberals & labor unions, but his "War on Cancer" centralizes research at the NIH.

The number of women entering the medical profession rises dramatically. In 1970, 9% of medical students are women

World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated.

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In the 1950s, the price of hospital care doubled. Now in the early 1960s, those outside the workplace, especially the elderly, have difficulty affording insurance.

Over 700 insurance companies selling health insurance.

Concern about a "doctor shortage" and the need for more "health manpower" leads to federal measures to expand education in the health professions.

Major medical insurance endorses high-cost medicine.

President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare and Medicaid into law.

"Compulsory Health Insurance" advocates are no longer optimistic'.

The number of doctors reporting themselves as full-time specialists grows from 55% in 1960 to 69%.

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national health care expenditures are 4.5 percent of the Gross National Product.

Attention turns to Korea and away from health reform;

America will have a system of private insurance for those who can afford it and welfare services for the poor.

Federal responsibility for the sick poor is firmly established.

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Penicillin comes into use.

Prepaid group health care begins

During the 2nd World War, wage and price controls are placed on American employers.

President Roosevelt asks Congress for "economic bill of rights," including right to adequate medical care.

President Truman offers national health program plan, proposing a single system that would include all of American society.

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Reformers now emphasize the cost of medical care instead of wages lost to sickness

physicians' incomes are higher and prestige is established..

General Motors signs a contract with Metropolitan Life to insure 180,000 workers.

Penicillin is discovered,

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Pres.Roosevelt campaigns the issue of health insurance with support of the progressive groups.

For 20 years president Roosevelt struggled with trying to get national health care reform through congress.

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American Medical Association begins

AMA becomes the most powerful influence over health care legislation

US lawmakers didn't make legislation surrounding health insurance policy.