Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare - Original Air Date May 16, 1985
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
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Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
1965 BW footage of President Lyndon Johnson signing a Social Security bill introducing Medicare. Johnson describes the benefits of this new program, Through this new law, Mr. President, every citizen will be able - in his productive years, when he is earning - to ensure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Michael Bromberg, Executive Director Federation of American Hospitals. We re fast reaching the point where we are going to have to re-word that promise, revise it, in order to keep that program going for 30 million elderly as they increase in numbers and lifespan.
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Capitol Journal host Hodding Carter introduces program
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
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Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Carter gives explanation of rising cost of Medicare
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Michael Bromberg, Executive Director Federation of American Hospitals comments on politicians' relationship to Medicare. Politicians like to tell people, I think, that Medicare s promise is to pay for all their health care and they won t have to contribute towards that care. But the reality certainly is that Medicare is cost 2, 3, 4 times as much as the actuaries or anyone else predicted when it was passed.
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Footage of hospital - elderly people waiting for treatment, busy hospital desk
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Surgeon walks into surgery room with light attached to his forehead
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Michael Bromberg, Executive Director Federation of American Hospitals. (Well we haven t lost our profits yet. We re doing very well. I don t want to mislead you. The hospital industry is just fine.) This DRG prospective payment system is working. And it s working for government because Medicare spent 2 billion dollars less than they thought this year.
Capitol Journal - Elderly Rights/Medicare
Cy Brickfield, Executive Director American Association of Retired Persons - comments on new Medicare payment program introduced in 1983. We think it s very helpful for older Americans because they have to pay part of the costs of hospital care and doctors fees. To that extent, it s been very helpful. At the same time however, it s a nuisance, these DRGs. We re getting complaints from our members that they re being discharged too soon from the hospitals. And this is a concern for us.