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Waiting for Reform: Developments in the Law of Health Care Access and Finance: 1992–1993

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Timothy S. Jost
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The last year, June 1992 through September 1993, has seen a great deal of ferment with respect to access to and financing of health care in the United States. The elections of 1992 portend dramatic changes in the American health care system, and vigorous debate regarding both expansion of access to health care and transformation of the health care financing system is taking place at the federal and the state levels. In fact, however, the time period covered here produced remarkably few changes in the law, particularly at the federal level. The one piece of Medicare and Medicaid legislation passed by Congress in the fall of 1992, H.R. 11, was vetoed by President Bush immediately after the election. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (ORBA) of 1993 contained a host of minor adjustments to the Medicare and the Medicaid programs, but only the Medicaid asset transfer provisions and extensions to the self-referral provisions of the fraud and abuse laws, discussed below, are of import to us.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1994 , pp. 63 - 71
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1994

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