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Public Health Experts: Many public health experts felt that there ere still two great deficiencies in the Medicare [program. The first was the lack of encouragement to use medical services for the purpose of Iconserving and maintaining good health; the Mecond deficiency was the failure to provide for Ithe payment of drug bills except while the pa-[flentwas in the hospital.
In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of the Public Health Service.
The Partnership for Health program was the product of this growing dissatisfaction. The main features of the law were: comprehensive state-wide health planning, participation on a majority basis of nonprofessional citizens in the planning process, and federal financial support for public health programs defined by the state planning agencies. These few ground rules represented a tremendous potential for making public health services responsive to the needs of people in local communities.
Another major public health development in the U.S. was the passage of the Regional Medical Centers Act.
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