Author: Robert D. Reischauer
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815791676
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In this cross-cutting analysis, some of the nation's most prominent social insurance experts go beyond recent budget debates to examine the fundamental and technical choices Medicare poses for the American people in the next century. The book begins with a consideration of the underlying social contract between Medicare's beneficiaries and workers. Pointing out that Medicare historically has had particular significance for civil rights and women's economic security in addition to providing health security, the authors debate the appropriate social contract for the future. The book also lays out the challenges in financing Medicare as health care costs rise and the population ages. Several authors explore how the growth in managed care is likely to affect Medicare beneficiaries with particular emphasis on beneficiaries with chronic illness, and they address some of the policy changes needed to make managed care better. In addition, they also look at how managed-care tools could be applied to the fee-for-service sector. The book concludes with an examination of how public opinion, politics, and leadership affect the prospects for significant Medicare restructuring in the near and long term. Copublished with the National Academy of Social Insurance
Medicare
Author: Robert D. Reischauer
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815791676
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In this cross-cutting analysis, some of the nation's most prominent social insurance experts go beyond recent budget debates to examine the fundamental and technical choices Medicare poses for the American people in the next century. The book begins with a consideration of the underlying social contract between Medicare's beneficiaries and workers. Pointing out that Medicare historically has had particular significance for civil rights and women's economic security in addition to providing health security, the authors debate the appropriate social contract for the future. The book also lays out the challenges in financing Medicare as health care costs rise and the population ages. Several authors explore how the growth in managed care is likely to affect Medicare beneficiaries with particular emphasis on beneficiaries with chronic illness, and they address some of the policy changes needed to make managed care better. In addition, they also look at how managed-care tools could be applied to the fee-for-service sector. The book concludes with an examination of how public opinion, politics, and leadership affect the prospects for significant Medicare restructuring in the near and long term. Copublished with the National Academy of Social Insurance
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815791676
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In this cross-cutting analysis, some of the nation's most prominent social insurance experts go beyond recent budget debates to examine the fundamental and technical choices Medicare poses for the American people in the next century. The book begins with a consideration of the underlying social contract between Medicare's beneficiaries and workers. Pointing out that Medicare historically has had particular significance for civil rights and women's economic security in addition to providing health security, the authors debate the appropriate social contract for the future. The book also lays out the challenges in financing Medicare as health care costs rise and the population ages. Several authors explore how the growth in managed care is likely to affect Medicare beneficiaries with particular emphasis on beneficiaries with chronic illness, and they address some of the policy changes needed to make managed care better. In addition, they also look at how managed-care tools could be applied to the fee-for-service sector. The book concludes with an examination of how public opinion, politics, and leadership affect the prospects for significant Medicare restructuring in the near and long term. Copublished with the National Academy of Social Insurance
Medicare in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Robert B. Helms
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844741185
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
These leading health economics experts make various recommendations for saving the popular Medicare program and grapple with finding a solution that is realistic, fair, and efficient.
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844741185
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
These leading health economics experts make various recommendations for saving the popular Medicare program and grapple with finding a solution that is realistic, fair, and efficient.
Designing a twenty-first century Medicare prescription drug benefit
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The implications of financing medicare in the twenty-first century \
Author: Marcus James Hutto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicare
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicare
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Medicare in the 21st Century
Author: David Blumenthal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884902383
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884902383
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Medicare
Author: Linda F. Wolf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788144950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This report commemorates & celebrates 30 years of the Medicare program. With personal stories, as well as facts & figures, these articles document the enormous impact Medicare has had on the lives of beneficiaries, on providers of health care, & on Amer. society as a whole. They look to the future & examine how the program may evolve as we enter the 21st century. Contents: beneficiary profile: yesterday, today, & tomorrow; beneficiary perspective; provider & insurer perspective; physician autonomy; hospitals; influence on private insur.; politics of Fed. health policy, 1960-75, & more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788144950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This report commemorates & celebrates 30 years of the Medicare program. With personal stories, as well as facts & figures, these articles document the enormous impact Medicare has had on the lives of beneficiaries, on providers of health care, & on Amer. society as a whole. They look to the future & examine how the program may evolve as we enter the 21st century. Contents: beneficiary profile: yesterday, today, & tomorrow; beneficiary perspective; provider & insurer perspective; physician autonomy; hospitals; influence on private insur.; politics of Fed. health policy, 1960-75, & more.
Designing a Twenty-First Century Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985318458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Designing a twenty-first century Medicare prescription drug benefit : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, April 8, 2003.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985318458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Designing a twenty-first century Medicare prescription drug benefit : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, April 8, 2003.
Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132967
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132967
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
One Nation Under AARP
Author: Frederick R. Lynch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520268289
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
"Lynch provides a fresh and comprehensive look at the potential for politically mobilizing the large Boomer generation. He successfully mixes anecdotes, scholarship, and statistics to present an entertaining and informative analysis of a timely topic. Anyone desiring to effect change in public policy will welcome this book."--William H. Frey, The Brookings Institution "Fred Lynch has written a nuanced and marvelously comprehensive examination of the state of the Boomer Nation. This book offers an in-depth look at the economic challenges facing Boomers as well as a colorful account of how AARP has tried to rebrand itself to attract the generation that once celebrated the free spirit and hated the 'establishment'."--Neil Howe, co-author of The Graying of the Great Powers "A timely and important study of one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America as it redefines its mission and its message to confront the generational challenges of the twenty-first century." --Steve Gillon, author of Boomer Nation and Resident Historian of the History Channel "Fred Lynch's interpretation is an illuminating and much needed empirical corrective to the confusing and misleading cant that dominates so much of the debate. His scholarship deftly distinguishes between the organization's marketing to an aging society and the diverse realities of that population demographic." --Ted Marmor, author of Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy and The Politics of Medicare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520268289
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
"Lynch provides a fresh and comprehensive look at the potential for politically mobilizing the large Boomer generation. He successfully mixes anecdotes, scholarship, and statistics to present an entertaining and informative analysis of a timely topic. Anyone desiring to effect change in public policy will welcome this book."--William H. Frey, The Brookings Institution "Fred Lynch has written a nuanced and marvelously comprehensive examination of the state of the Boomer Nation. This book offers an in-depth look at the economic challenges facing Boomers as well as a colorful account of how AARP has tried to rebrand itself to attract the generation that once celebrated the free spirit and hated the 'establishment'."--Neil Howe, co-author of The Graying of the Great Powers "A timely and important study of one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America as it redefines its mission and its message to confront the generational challenges of the twenty-first century." --Steve Gillon, author of Boomer Nation and Resident Historian of the History Channel "Fred Lynch's interpretation is an illuminating and much needed empirical corrective to the confusing and misleading cant that dominates so much of the debate. His scholarship deftly distinguishes between the organization's marketing to an aging society and the diverse realities of that population demographic." --Ted Marmor, author of Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy and The Politics of Medicare
Medicare in the 21st Century
Author: June Eichner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This report is about how Medicare could improve care for beneficiaries with chronic conditions. During the mid-1960s, acute care - not chronic care - was the major focus of medicine. When Medicare was instituted in 1965, it was modeled after the health insurance system of that time. Medicare was to function primarily as a claims payer; its benefit package and reimbursement systems were not designed for chronic conditions; preventive services were excluded; and reimbursement was paid only for in-person visits and procedures to individual providers. Since then, good chronic care and comprehensive coverage have become crucial to Medicare beneficiaries. Though some improvements have been made to Medicare, major changes in the provision and financing of chronic care for Medicare beneficiaries are needed. Medicare has the potential to refocus its Medicare program - as well as the nation's health care system - and should take a leading role in improving chronic care. This report is the final product of the Medicare and Chronic Care in the 21st Century study panel, a panel convened by the National Academy of Social Insurance as part of its Making Medicare Restructuring Work project. The panel was charged with determining the health care and related needs of Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, how well Medicare meets their needs, features of the current Medicare program that support or impede good chronic care, and the experience of other chronic care models. The study panel focused on original Medicare, Medicare's traditional fee-for-service program. It chose this focus because 35 million of Medicare's 40 million beneficiaries are covered under this system. The study panel also recommended changes to the Medicare+Choice (M+C) system, as changes to M+C may be easier to facilitate.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This report is about how Medicare could improve care for beneficiaries with chronic conditions. During the mid-1960s, acute care - not chronic care - was the major focus of medicine. When Medicare was instituted in 1965, it was modeled after the health insurance system of that time. Medicare was to function primarily as a claims payer; its benefit package and reimbursement systems were not designed for chronic conditions; preventive services were excluded; and reimbursement was paid only for in-person visits and procedures to individual providers. Since then, good chronic care and comprehensive coverage have become crucial to Medicare beneficiaries. Though some improvements have been made to Medicare, major changes in the provision and financing of chronic care for Medicare beneficiaries are needed. Medicare has the potential to refocus its Medicare program - as well as the nation's health care system - and should take a leading role in improving chronic care. This report is the final product of the Medicare and Chronic Care in the 21st Century study panel, a panel convened by the National Academy of Social Insurance as part of its Making Medicare Restructuring Work project. The panel was charged with determining the health care and related needs of Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, how well Medicare meets their needs, features of the current Medicare program that support or impede good chronic care, and the experience of other chronic care models. The study panel focused on original Medicare, Medicare's traditional fee-for-service program. It chose this focus because 35 million of Medicare's 40 million beneficiaries are covered under this system. The study panel also recommended changes to the Medicare+Choice (M+C) system, as changes to M+C may be easier to facilitate.