| Description |
xi, 202 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Medicare reform: the stakes -- A Medicare primer -- Goals, performance, and options for Medicare -- Strengthening Medicare as a social insurance program -- Premium support -- Consumer-directed Medicare -- Assessing Medicare reform options and prospects |
| Summary |
"Identifies and analyzes the three leading approaches to Medicare reform: updated social insurance, premium support, and consumer-directed Medicare, rating each on its political viability as well as ability to promote access to health care, improve quality of care, and control costs. Describes incremental strategies that blend elements of each plan"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"A Century Foundation book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-193) and index |
| Subject |
Medicare.
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Health care reform -- United States.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Medicare -- organization & administration.
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Health Care Reform -- organization & administration.
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Health Policy.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Lambrew, Jeanne M.
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Healy, Patrick F. (Patrick Ferrigan), 1982-
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Century Foundation.
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Brookings Institution.
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| LC no. |
2008018709 |
| ISBN |
9780815701248 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0815701241 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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