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Appendix A: U.S Health Care Timeline

Use the following timeline or create a timeline of your own with eight major events, including the four provided below, from the last 50 years. You may change the dates in the box to match the dates of your events. Include the following in your timeline: Medicare and Medicaid
HIPAA of 1996
State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Prospective Payment System (PPS)

1955 | In 1955 the then Indian Health Services took a new shape as it was taken away from Department of Interior. It was handed over to H.H.S. I learned from ihs.gov that in the past tribal Indians had to submit their land to get health services from US government. The Indian population could get …show more content…

It offers a unique characteristic that safeguards health information of patients. People with earlier health conditions may be allowed to change their plans and still maybe allowed to get services. Some limitations will be at work.State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was enacted on August 5, 1997 by president Bill Clinton. It is both federal and state funded. When low income people fail to get private insurance plans while they cannot qualify for Medicaid for going beyond the income limit, they can go for this program. This program comes with more quality services than that of Medicaid. Families may choose to go for submitting monthly fee at small amounts. However, a child with a private insurance plan cannot go for this program. In this case, she has to stay without any | 2001 | In 2001 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid took charge of the Health Care Financing Administration. A person can go on with SSI for 2 years if he/she fails to meet the requirements for Medicare for the time being. The person should be eligible for Social Security Disability in this case. For some particular disease Medicare may be offered without any delay | 2010 | President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act on March 23 2010. The objective of this law was to reform related to insurance to go on for four years and more regarding the comprehensive aspect of reform. This law has

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