TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - The Federal Bureaucracy, the US Congress, and Healthcare Policy A1 - Burns, Lawton Robert PY - 2021 T2 - The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers AB - Prior chapters have discussed the role of the federal government in payment programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid (see Chapters 18 and 19). The following chapter describes the government’s role in promoting public health, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which have played a major role in the COVID-19 crisis. This chapter describes the responsibilities for healthcare that are widely distributed and exercised throughout the congressional and executive branches of the US government. It also sketches some of the major policy initiatives these branches have undertaken over the past few decades. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180254817 ER -