Reforming Medicare

Reforming Medicare
Author: Henry Aaron
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0815701500

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Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. Some argue the program is too comprehensive, others that it is not comprehensive enough. Some suggest it pays too much for health care, others, too little. Meanwhile, the financial stakes continue to mount. Medicare spending exceeded $400 billion in 2007, making it more expensive than the entire health systems of most other nations, as well as the largest national public program other than Social Security and national defense. In R eforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate. They identify and analyze the three leading approaches to reform. Updated social insurance would retain the current system while rationalizing coverage and reducing bureaucracy. Premium support would replace the current system with a capped, per-person payment that beneficiaries could use to buy health insurance. Consumer-directed Medicare would have beneficiaries pay for care up to a high deductible from government- supported savings accounts and offer premium-support coverage above the deductible. In addition to rating each option on its ability to promote access to health care, improve the quality of care, and control costs, the authors evaluate each reform's political strengths and weaknesses. Given the heat generated by the Medicare debate, it is unlikely that any single approach will be implemented in full. Consequently, Aaron and Lambrew describe incremental strategies that blend elements of each plan. Their analysis provides essential insight into the types of hybrid policies that Congress will consider in coming years.

Medicare Reform

Medicare Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

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Medicare

Medicare
Author: William Scanlon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1999
Genre: Managed care plans (Medical care)
ISBN:

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Medicare Reform

Medicare Reform
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2000
Genre: Health care reform
ISBN:

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Paying for Medicare

Paying for Medicare
Author: David G. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351500430

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** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature.The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at policy innovation in history continue to shape decisions about Medicare and cost containment efforts.Smith shows how particular policy alternatives were developed; why chosen or rejected; and how provider interests and American political institutions have shaped their design and implementation.

Fifth in Series on Medicare Reform

Fifth in Series on Medicare Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

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Medicare Reform

Medicare Reform
Author: David Michael Walker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1999
Genre: Medicare
ISBN:

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Reforming Medicare's Physician Payment System

Reforming Medicare's Physician Payment System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

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Medicare Reform

Medicare Reform
Author: Andrew J. Rettenmaier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780226710136

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A group of respected analysts of health issues considers the economic forces impacting the surging health care market and examines the ultimate fairness of an intergenerational contract dictating that tomorrow's workers foot the bill for today's elderly."--BOOK JACKET. "Written for the general reader and offering innovative ideas for policy revision along with critical new data on health care economics, this comprehensive volume provides a timely and thoughtful deliberation on the precarious future of Medicare."--BOOK JACKET.