Download or read book Supplemental Health Insurance Coverage Among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries written by Steven A. Garfinkel and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplemental Health Insurance Coverage Among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries written by Steven A. Garfinkel and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplemental Health Insurance Coverage Among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries written by Steven A. Garfinkel and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medicare Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance for the Elderly written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to Health Care Among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries written by William E. Schlenger and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Download or read book Health Insurance is a Family Matter written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. The book demonstrates that having one or more uninsured members in a family can have adverse consequences for everyone in the household and that the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of all members of a family may be adversely affected if any family member lacks coverage. It concludes with the finding that uninsured children have worse access to and use fewer health care services than children with insurance, including important preventive services that can have beneficial long-term effects.
Download or read book Gaps in Supplemental Insurance in Under 65 Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries written by Jill Marie Klingner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Beneficiaries with Dual Sources of Coverage written by Craig Copeland and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and the disabled, is facing an impending financial crisis, as the expected outlays from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund are estimated to surpass the projected revenues beginning in 2007. However, the benefits offered to Medicare beneficiaries are typically less generous than benefits the nonelderly (under age 65) receive in their health plans. For example, Medicare does not cover outpatient prescription drugs and has relatively high deductibles for hospitalizations. Consequently, many Medicare beneficiaries also have a supplemental source of health care coverage. The sources of this supplemental coverage are a former employer or a spouse's former employer, a "Medigap" policy purchased by individuals through a private insurance company, or a public program such as Medicaid, the federal-state government program for the poor. This Notes article examines the trend in the number and percentage of noninstitutionalized elderly Medicare beneficiaries with these additional sources of coverage from 1994 to 1998. The PDF for the above title, published in the February 2000 issue of EBRI Notes, also contains the fulltext of another February 2000 EBRI Notes article abstracted on SSRN: "Retirement Annuity and Employment-Based Pension Income."
Download or read book Low income Medicare Beneficiaries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Profiles of Medicare written by United States. Health Care Financing Administration and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term Determinants of Supplemental Health Insurance Coverage in the Medicare Population written by Lee A. Lillard and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medicare program provides health insurance coverage for virtually all elderly Americans. However, the program does not cover some important types of medical services, including prescription drugs, dental services and most long-term care. Expenditures for these services, as well as the copayments and deductibles under the Medicare program, may result in significant out-of-pocket expenditures for the elderly. As a result, many have private insurance to supplement Medicare. Using data from a new data source, the 1990 Health Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this paper examines the determinants of private insurance coverage among the elderly. Among economic factors, wealth is the most important in the decision to purchase private insurance among the elderly. Controlling for economic factors, blacks, persons with less education and unmarried women are less likely to purchase insurance to supplement Medicare. Despite the potential for adverse selection, there is no evidence that persons in prior poor health are more likely to purchase supplemental insurance. Among elderly persons who have supplemental insurance through employment-based sources, the primary determinant of having insurance is work history. The probability of holding employer-provided insurance increases with job tenure and is related to prior occupation. The primary determinant of whether a private policy covers prescription drugs or dental care, two important excluded services under Medicare, is that the source of the insurance was an employer. The current trend among employers toward decreased generosity of post-retirement health benefits implies that fewer older Americans will have insurance coverage for these services.
Download or read book Improving the Medicare Market written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare beneficiaries are rapidly moving into managed care, as attempts to restrain the growth of this costly entitlement program progress. However, advocates for patients question whether the necessary information and structures are in place to enable Medicare consumers to select wisely among private-sector managed care options. Improving the Medicare Market examines how to give Medicare beneficiaries the same choice of health plan options enjoyed in the private sectorâ€"yet protect them as consumers and patients. This book recommends approaches to ensuring accountability and informed purchasing for Medicare beneficiaries in an environment of broader choice and managed careâ€"how the government should evaluate and approve plans, what role the traditional Medicare program should play, how to help to elderly understand their options, and many other practical matters. The committee discusses the information requirements of Medicare beneficiaries and explores in detail how best to respond to their special needs. And it examines the procedures that should be developed to provide the necessary protections for the elderly in a managed care system.
Download or read book Paying for Health Care After Age 65 written by Elizabeth Vierck and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook of information on paying for health care for older Americans. Provides clear, detailed information on the Medicare system, how it works, how to cope with it successfully, and how to fill in the gaps it leaves, including supplemental insurance and financing long-term care.
Download or read book Medigap Insurance written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Profiles of written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
