Part one of term paper
Providing Cancer Clinical Trials for Medicare Beneficiaries Less than three percent of cancer patients participate in clinical trials of new therapies. Many scientists believe that higher participation could lead to the faster development of therapies for more of those in need. Moreover, the elderly, who are most likely to get cancer, ofte ...

Part two of term paper
... treatments and encourage higher participation in clinical trials by establishing a three-year, $750 million demonstration program, specifically for Medicare beneficiaries, to cover the patient care costs for those who participate in certain federally-sponsored cancer clinical trials. Although the Health Care Financing Administration (which administers Medicare) would run the demonstration, it would be funded by specified receipts from national tobacco legislation and, thus, would ...