The Reagan Record on Health Care

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Two years after assuming power, the Reagan administration has accomplished a number of the major health-policy goals it identified when Republican Ronald Reagan took office: it has introduced a more tight-fisted social contract between the federal government and the citizens that government, by law, is compelled to protect; it has taken a step toward devolving federal health programs to state and local governments; and it has developed a hospital payment scheme that would penalize institutions for their inefficiencies (a scheme discussed in detail in my last two Journal articles1 , 2).The administration also reinforced the policies of its Democratic predecessor . . .
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