By Sue A. Blevins
Blevins examines the program's origins, its evolution, and destiny coverage concepts.
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Ironically, he would help devise the strategy that eventually created the Medicare program. ’’ The report emphasized Cohen and Falk’s incremental approach. Instead of focusing on the entire population, as Democrats had been doing over the years, the Commission proposed a much narrower program: prepaid health benefits for people on Social Security—that is, the elderly, the widowed, and the disabled. Truman’s Commission began comparing the health statistics of the aged with those of younger populations.
It also placed politicians in a position whereby voting against Medicare would be a vote against an increase in cost-of-living assistance. The AMA and Republicans Offer Counter Proposals When it appeared that Medicare would pass, the AMA recommended an alternative bill titled ‘‘Eldercare,’’ which would have provided much more coverage than the original Medicare bill, including doctor visits, nursing home care, and prescription drugs. It was basically an enlarged Kerr-Mills program, essentially the same as today’s Medicaid.
Soon after the California defeat the campaign for compulsory health insurance collapsed. 22 Organized medicine, too, experienced a change in the political tide following World War I. 23 This, in turn, prompted county and state medical societies to send AMA official resolutions condemning its position. 25 In 1927, the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care (CCMC) was created under the chairmanship of Dr. ’’ However, that economic outlook would soon change. Charles-Edward A. 28 In 1917 Winslow had visited Russia, whose health care system he admired.