National Health Planning and Resources Development Act
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The National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, or Public Law 93-641 is a piece of 1974 American Congressional legislation.
Details of the Act
In this Act, three distinct existing programs were consolidated:
- Hill-Burton
- Regional Medical Program
- Comprehensive Health Planning Act
The intent of Congress in passing this Act was to create throughout the United States, a strengthened and improved federal-, state- and area-wide system of health planning and resources development that would help provide solutions to several identified problems.
The perceived problems the Act was intended to address were as follows:
- lack of equal access to quality health care at reasonable cost
- infusion of federal funds into the health care system was contributing to inflationary health care costs while failing to produce an adequate supply or distribution of health resources
- the lack of a comprehensive, rational approach by the public and private sectors to creation of uniformly effective methods of delivering health care
- misdistribution of health care facilities and manpower
- increasing and uncontrolled inflation of health care costs, particularly the costs associated with hospital stays
- inadequate incentives for the use of alternative levels of health care and the substitution of ambulatory and intermediate care for inpatient hospital care
- the lack of basic knowledge regarding proper personal health care and methods for effective use of available health services in large segments of the population
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