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MEDICARE AND EQUITY IN HEALTH CARE

burdens related to the use of health care services would result in a greater equity in the access to such services across income groups (Davis, 1975, p. 453). The way in which the Medicare program was structured, however, all but guaranteed that equity in access would not occur. First, physicians' and other health care services were separated from hospital services in the funding scheme. Second, the funding scheme for physicians' and other health care services require the payment of both a monthly premium by participants in Medicare Part B and the payment of 20 percent of the approved cost of any services received. Third, catastrophic care is not covered by the Medicare program that is designed only to fund acute care.

If an individual covered by Medicare does not, because of financial hardship, pay Part B premiums, that individual is liable for all physicians' and other health care services received. Under such co

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