Medicare Now and in the Future Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Moon Marilyn
First published in 1997, this volume approaches the controversial issue of Medicare and its future. First passed in 1965 to aid payments for elderly and disabled medical care, the costs had ballooned in the 1990s, asking questions about how to improve its efficiency. An original goal of this book was to contextualise Medicare within the anticipated comprehensive restructuring of American healthcare. With Medicare 10% of the federal budget at the original time of publication, Marilyn Moon now takes another look at Medicare and discusses how the budget could be tightened without threatening the function of Medicare, with an emphasis on better targeting. In particular, the novel issue of means testing is explored. Having researched Medicare since 1981, Moon recasts her book by discussing issues including Medicare?s context, ensuring access, containing costs, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, the potential for marginal changes, reducing costs, expanding Medicare and ultimately how Medicare should look to change.
1. Placing Medicare in Context. 2. Assuring Access. 3. Containing Costs: Impacts on Providers. 4. Containing Costs: Impacts on Beneficiaries. 5. The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act. 6. Marginal Changes and the Future. 7. Reducing the Cost of Medicare. 8. Expanding Medicare. 9. How Should Medicare Change?
Date de parution : 06-2020
15.2x21.9 cm
Date de parution : 08-2018
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act; Medigap Policies; Health Care Financing Administration; HCFA; Medicare Beneficiaries; Physician Payment Reform; Low Income Medicare Beneficiaries; SNF Care; Medicare Enrollees; Home Health Benefit; Medicare Fee Schedule; Long Term Care Coverage; Enrollee Participation; Physician Payment; Cost Containment Efforts; High Cost Sharing; Supplemental Premium; Long Term Care Benefits; Beneficiary Cost Sharing; Medical Care Price Index; Long Term Care Insurance; PPS System; Long Term Care; Long Term Care Option; Medicare Hmo