NCJ Number
146037
Journal
Large Jail Network Bulletin Dated: (Winter 1993) Pages: 10-13
Date Published
1993
Length
4 pages
Annotation
Some of the major components of the Clinton Administration's health care reform plan are discussed in terms of the impact on corrections health care.
Abstract
This article asserts that health care reform under the plan proposed by the Clinton Administration will have little impact on health care provided in correctional institutions. It contends that the key components of the plan have been fundamental principles in corrections health care for years. The author identifies some of the problems that health care reform is aimed at and some of the reforms that have been proposed. He then discusses some of the specifics of the Clinton Administration's managed care approach and relates them to correctional health care which, according to the author, is itself a model of managed care. The areas discussed are: providing universal access to health care, requiring co-payments and premiums, limiting the choice of physician, defining the scope of benefits, and cost control strategies. One positive aspect of the Clinton plan would be that the scope of the benefits defined by the plan would become the community standard giving corrections health care providers with a solid legal basis for narrowing the scope of care.