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Research Study Development on Hospice Care and Its Medicare Benefits

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social safety net of the American public net by cutting welfare, healthcare, education, nutrition and scores of other domestic programs in the name of deficit reduction. It has come to  be an accepted truth that the healthcare system in the United States is inherently flawed, in good measure due to the fact that both liberal and conservative positions are mired  in political ideology. The political system of the United States is fundamentally responsible for the development of policy and no area feels the politicized nature of policy-making more than healthcare.  As a result, the general public has heard a broad range of opinions, both pro and con, regarding comprehensive healthcare and gone on to develop their own attitudes based on  their personal experiences and those of their friends and family. However, what is all too often forgotten in the numerous aspects of the healthcare debate is the simple  and undeniable fact that people are still going to die, regardless of how extensive the healthcare they receive may be. Even Washington politicians understand that death cannot be avoided. As  a result, the past twenty years have also shown a greater understanding of the many concerns associated with death and dying in America, not the least of which is hospice  care. Even funding sources of the magnitude of Medicare and private insurers have come to understand that end-of-life care is an important component of healthcare and deserves to receive compensatory  funding. In order to illustrate that the general public believes the same thing about hospice care services, it will be useful to consider the differences between utilization rates before and  after Congress passed the Medicare Hospice Benefit in 1982 and then the subsequent accreditation of hospice service providers. Hospice Care and Government Funding According to Huffman (2000): "Eligibility for hospice