[Health care] [7 of 16]: RMR - CGW Health Memo

Material in this series was generated from 1986 through 1994. Materials include notes, memos, correspondence, reports, testimony from hearings, press clippings, and journal articles. Subjects addressed are: causes for the high rate of cost increases; problems in the delivery of long-term health care services; the role of prevention in lowering health care costs; plans for consolidating resources for efficiency; development of eligibility criteria for benefit recipients; and philosophical differences in approaches to solving the problems. The primary problem in long-term care remains the coverage of enormous and impoverishing costs of this care. Various health care proposals are discussed in these records: the Pepper-Roybal proposal of 1988, which presented a plan for covering long-term home care costs; the Mitchell plan of 1988, which advocated extending Medicare to cover long-term home care and long-term nursing home care costs; the Catastrophic Coverage bill (passed in 1987 and repealed in 1989); the "HealthAmerica" plan of 1991, which would have provided a national board to oversee health care; President Clinton's 1994 Health-Care Reform initiative, centered on guaranteeing access to health care for all Americans; and others. Christine Williams maintained most of the files in this series. Robert Crittendon created some files. Some long-term care files can be found in the Health Care Budgets series.