...Gloria Ruby; H. David Banta; Anne Kesselman Burns One possible approach to containing Medicare costs involves explicit changes in Medicare's coverage policy with respect to medical technology. This paper first describes the development and diffusion of medical technology in general...

... intervening institutional change. This dynamic has unfolded three times: from the Progressive Era to the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, from the late 1960s to the expansion of Medicaid in the 1980s, and from defeat of the 1993 Clinton plan to the enactment of the Children's Health Insurance Plan...

...William E. Aaronson; Jacqueline S. Zinn; Michael D. Rosko Congress intended the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (MCCA) of 1988 to reduce the risk for illness-related catastrophic financial losses in the elderly. The act was short-lived, facing repeal just one year after passage. Many elderly...

... Medicare: Intentions, Effects, and Politics To rephrase a lyric by the Grateful Dead, what a short, strange trip it’s been. Just six years ago the combination of the apparent immediate fis- cal crisis in the trust fund for Part A of Medicare, anticipation...

...Eric Patashnik; Julian Zelizer Medicare features an unusually complex financing design. The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund pays for Part A of Medicare (hospital stays), while the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund finances Part B (doctor visits,outpatient care, and certain home health...

...Michael Gusmano; Mark Schlesinger The Medicare program incorporates a number of functions that go beyond providing health insurance to its beneficiaries. These activities, which we refer to as “collateral” functions, may have important health consequences but are also an increasing source...

... statements—the “gold standard” in hospital financial reporting —are not publicly available in many states. As a result, the Medicare Cost Report (MCR), filed annually by most U.S. hospitals in order to receive payment for treating Medicare patients, has become the primary public source of hospital financial...

...Theodore R. Marmor © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.1-05 Marmor 1/25/01 10:12 AM Page 107 Report from the Field How Not to Think about Medicare Reform Theodore R. Marmor...

...Jacob S. Hacker This review is an adaptation of a paper prepared for a roundtable discussion on Theodore R. Marmor's The Politics of Medicare at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, 31 August–3 September 2000. Copyright by the American...

... . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Key, V. O., Jr. 1961 . Public Opinion and American Democracy . New York: Knopf. Oberlander, J. 1995 . Medicare and the American State: The Politics of Federal Health Insurance, 1965–1994 . Ph.D. diss., Department of Political Science, Yale University...

... University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.1-06 Book Review All 1/25/01 10:16 AM Page 119 Books: Review Symposium on The Politics of Medicare: A Thirty-Year Retrospective on Ted Marmor’s...

... . Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Changes in the Health Care Arena in the United States,Britain, and Canada . New York: Oxford University Press. JHPPL 26.1-06 Book Review All 1/25/01 10:16 AM Page 119 Books: Review Symposium on The Politics of Medicare...

...Jonathan Oberlander Ronald J. Vogel. Medicare: Issues in Political Economy . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 252 pp. $49.00 cloth. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Feldstein, Paul. 1994 . Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective on Health Reform . Ann...

...Laurence Seidman Abstract Many problems facing the Affordable Care Act would disappear if the nation were instead implementing Medicare for All — the extension of Medicare to every age group. Every American would be automatically covered for life. Premiums would be replaced with a set of Medicare...

...Harold Pollack Abstract Medicare for All, ideally implemented, could offer powerful advantages over our current health care financial system. Unfortunately, the political obstacles to such a system are formidable and are likely to remain so for decades. More to the point, a politically viable...

... of life while saving Medicare money, found hospice care achieved comparable outcomes to traditional cancer care and was less costly as long as hospice lengths of stay were not too long. In 1982, before study results were final, Congress created a Medicare hospice benefit under a capitated per diem payment...

...Walter McClure Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Position Paper An Incentive Tax for Medicare, Medicaid and National Health Insurance Walter McClure, In terStudv . The present financing of Medicare and Medicaid...

...Daniel P. Gitterman; John C. Scott “Obama Lies, Grandma Dies”: The Uncertain Politics of Medicare and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Daniel P. Gitterman...

...Robert F. Coulam; Roger D. Feldman; Bryan E. Dowd The Medicare program faces a serious challenge: it must find ways to control costs but must do so through a system of congressional oversight that necessarily limits its choices. We look at one approach to prudent purchasing — competitive pricing...