Download or read book Medicare written by Robert D. Reischauer and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Prescription Drugs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare in the 21st Century written by June Eichner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Enhancing Medicare for the 21st Century written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare written by Linda F. Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Medicare in the Twenty first Century written by Robert B. Helms and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Medicare in the 21st Century written by David Blumenthal and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare in the 21st Century written by Nayda Orlov and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enhancing Medicare for the 21st Century written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhancing Medicare for the 21st century: a prescription benefit for seniors: hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, St. Louis, MO, August 27, 2003.
Download or read book The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Download or read book Enhancing Medicare for the 21st Century written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhancing Medicare for the 21st century : a prescription benefit for seniors : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, St. Louis, MO, August 27, 2003.
Download or read book Prescription Drugs written by Michael Bilirakis and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses include: Nancy Davenport-Ennis, founding Exec. Dir., Patient Advocate Foundation; Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, Administrator, Health Care Financing Admin. (HCFA); Patric Donoho, V.P. of Government Affairs & Public Policy, Pharmaceutical Care Management Assoc.; Judith Feder, Dean of Public Policy Studies, Georgetown Univ.; Craig Fuller, Pres. & CEO, Nat. Assoc. of Chain Drug Stores; Karen Ignagni, Pres. & CEO, Amer. Assoc. of Health Plans; Charles Kahn, III, Pres., Health Insur. Assoc. of Amer.; & Ronald Pollack, Exec. Dir., Families USA. Also, material submitted for the record: James Martin, Pres., 60 Plus Assoc., prepared statement.
Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-08-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A 21st Century Medicare written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 21st century Medicare : bipartisan proposals to redesign the program's outdated benefit structure : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, June 26, 2013.
Download or read book Prescription Drugs written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prescription drugs : modernizing Medicare for the 21st century : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, June 14, 2000.
Download or read book Medicare written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare: 21st Century Challenges Prompt Fresh Thinking About Program's Administrative Structure
