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APhA Policy Manual

Medicare and Patient Care Service


  1. APhA believes that Health care, including the essential component of patient care services, should be made available to as many people as possible in our society through the most economical system compatible with an acceptable standard of quality.
  2. APhA should support the Part B mechanism which is the voluntary supplementary medical insurance program financed equally by beneficiaries and the government.
  3. APhA should oppose laws, regulations, and policies that would restrict the Medicare drug benefit to specific, chronic diseases.
  4. APhA should support the inclusion of patient care services under Medicare or any other federal financing mechanism, providing the program is designed to help persons who need it most and is administratively efficient and economical.
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