Options for Change Under Medicare
Author | : Marian Gornick |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Medicare |
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Author | : Marian Gornick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Medicare |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Medical care, Cost of |
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Author | : Marian Gornick |
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Medicare |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Diabetes |
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Author | : Marilyn Moon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Medicare |
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Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Medical care, Cost of |
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Author | : Henry Aaron |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0815701500 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Health insurance |
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Author | : Peter R. Orszag |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Health insurance |
ISBN | : 9781422324882 |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Under this proposal, newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries would receive their health coverage through private insurance plans, not traditional Medicare. Beneficiaries would choose among competing plans and the federal government would contribute a fixed amount to pay the premiums for the private insurance plan. If the private insurance premiums prove to be higher than the federal contribution, seniors would be required to pay the difference. If the government's annual contribution does not increase by the same amount as the annual cost increase in premiums, beneficiaries would pay the difference, which could get larger over time.