Modernizing Medicare Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Market Competition

Moffit, Robert Emmet. (Author). Fishpaw, Marie. (Added Author).

Summary: "Health policymaking has become increasingly contentious over recent decades. The editors observe that legislators in the coming years will need to address Medicare and its increasing share of the federal budget. Against this backdrop they offer a collection of highly regarded experts to weigh in on strategies that address both the large and growing fiscal needs of the program and the highly bureaucratic administration of the program--which they contend is not flexible enough to meet the needs of beneficiaries"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781421446035
ISBN: 1421446030
Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
remote
electronic resource
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

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Introduction : Reviving the Medicare Reform Consensus / Robert Emmet Moffit -- Why Medicare Reform Has Been Hard : A Public Choice Perspective / Mark Pauly -- Pursuing Medicare Reform in the Context of a Financing Crisis / Charles P. Blahous -- How Medicare Advantage Secures Better Value for Seniors and Taxpayers / Christopher Pope -- Improving Medicare Advantage through Patient Power / John C. Goodman -- The Next Step in Medicare Reform / Brian J. Miller and Gail R. Wilensky -- Medicare Advantage : The Platform for a Comprehensive Premium Support Program / Robert E. Moffit -- Modernizing Traditional Medicare : The First Step to Effective Competition / Joseph R. Antos -- Medicare Risk Adjustment : Stabilizing the Market in a Premium Support Program / Edmund F. Haislmaier -- Modernizing Medicare : Improving Payment and Delivery of Prescription Drugs / Doug Badger -- Reforming Medicare : Lessons from Premium Support's Long Bipartisan History / Walton F. Francis -- The Potential for Beneficiary and Taxpayer Savings in Moving to a Premium Support Model for Medicare / Douglas Holtz-Eakin.