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Political battles over the federal role in health financed continued, with the major change coming in 1965, when Lydon Johnson's "[[Great Society]]" created Medicare, that is low-cost hospital care for Social Security recipients. Actual costs of Medicare proved much higher than predicted, making it a major element of the federal budget.
Political battles over the federal role in health financed continued, with the major change coming in 1965, when Lydon Johnson's "[[Great Society]]" created Medicare, that is low-cost hospital care for Social Security recipients. Actual costs of Medicare proved much higher than predicted, making it a major element of the federal budget.
The ongoing controversy about how much more hospitals charge self-paying or uninsured patients compared to patients having insurance or being in government programs like [[Medicare]] or [[Medicaid]] is referred to as [[hospital pricing]].
===Multiple roles===
===Multiple roles===
After World War II the hospital began to assume a new role as community health center, for the outpatient department and the emergency room became a substitute for the rapidly vanishing general practitioner to whom families had formerly turned for help. At the same time, the increasing expensiveness of medical care stimulated attempts to economize by creating new forms of health delivery systems, such as health maintenance organizations, which build and operate their own hospitals to serve their prepaid members.
After World War II the hospital began to assume a new role as community health center, for the outpatient department and the emergency room became a substitute for the rapidly vanishing general practitioner to whom families had formerly turned for help. At the same time, the increasing expensiveness of medical care stimulated attempts to economize by creating new forms of health delivery systems, such as health maintenance organizations, which build and operate their own hospitals to serve their prepaid members.
By 1973 the 7,000, existing hospitals had grown much larger, with 1.65 million beds.
By 1973 the 7,000, existing hospitals had grown much larger, with 1.65 million beds.
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