Lessons from the First Twenty Years of Medicare: Research Implications for Public and Private Sector PolicyMark V. Pauly, William L. Kissick, Laura E. Roper In this comprehensive volume, leading experts on health policy consider a broad range of Medicare-related issues. They assess the effects of Medicare policy over the last twenty years, analyze the impact of changing economic and demographic conditions, and consider how best to implement successful reform of the troubled system. |
Contents
The Impossible Dream? | 25 |
Positive Political Economy of Medicare Past and Future | 49 |
An Analysis of the Welfare Component and Intergenerational Transfers | 73 |
Medicare as Insurance in Insurance Markets | 115 |
Should Medicare Provide Expanded Coverage for LongTerm Care? | 151 |
Assessment of Current Status | 181 |
Medicare Payment and Provider Behavior | 209 |
Prospective Payment and HospitalMedical Staff Relationships | 223 |
Past Present and Future | 239 |
Evidence | 273 |
Employers and Medicare as Partners in Financing Health Care for | 301 |
Direct and Indirect Effects | 321 |
Medicare and Appropriate Medical Care | 339 |
A Medicare Issue | 357 |
Packages Bows and Strings | 373 |
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