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Health Insurance for Americans Approaching Age Sixty-five: An Analysis of Options for Incremental Reform
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (1): 41–76.
Published: 01 February 2003
..., P., and M. Moon. 1999 . Medicare Buy-in Proposal . Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation. Marquis, M. S., and S. H. Long. 1995 . Worker Demand for Health Insurance in the Non-group Market. Journal of Health Economics 14 : 47 -63. McClellan, M., I. Spatz, and S. Carney. 2000...
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Decisions without Consequences: Cost Control and Access in State Medicaid Programs
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 February 1992
... for its Medicaid eligibles who qua1ify.j Two binary vari-
ables indicate whether a state imposes restrictions on physician services
4. Medicare Part B covers primarily physician and outpatient medical care and. unlike Medic-
aid, is a wholly federal program. Most states buy Medicare Part B...
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Rebounding with Medicare: Reform and Counterreform in American Health Policy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (4): 707–730.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Progressive reform Medicare buy-in Medicare Advantage marketplaces universal coverage There is no way to understand the path of health care reform in the United States without understanding the role of counterreform. Every successful progressive reform in health policy has been adopted in response...
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Protecting Medicare: The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 April 2007
... Report for July 2006. August 2. www.kff.org/medicare/upload/medicaretracking0706.pdf . Kotlikoff, Laurence J., and Scott Burns. 2004 . The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. McDevitt, Roland D. 1998. A Medicare Buy...
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Health Insurance Loss during COVID-19 May Increase Support for Universal Health Coverage
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2022
... it” or “Medicare buy-ins”) to more expansive visions of “Medicare for All” (hereafter, M4A), which has become shorthand for single-payer insurance with universal coverage in the United States. Popularized by Senator Bernie Sanders, M4A would fully delink health coverage from employment and provide universal, tax...
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Secret Weapon: The “New” Medicare as a Route to Health Security
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 247–291.
Published: 01 April 2007
... second term, President Clinton proposed allowing the “near
elderly” (early retirees older than sixty-two, and those older than fifty-five who had been laid
off) to buy into the Medicare program (New York Times 1998).
Schlesinger and Hacker ■ Medicare as a Route to Health Security 275...
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: The Victory of Unorthodox Lawmaking
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (5): 741–778.
Published: 01 October 2012
... not-for - profit health cooperatives. Medicare expan-
sion to the age group 55 – 64, known as a Medicare buy- in, also evoked
controversy, especially from Joseph Lieberman, an independent senator
from Connecticut. Several of the most politically controversial provisions
of the bill were resolved...
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Measuring Coverage for Seniors in Medicare Part A and Estimating the Cost of Making It Universal
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 February 2010
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into Medicare Part B by their state Medicaid programs or buy in directly
as individuals, yet they remain without the more costly Part A coverage.4
We analyzed CMS administrative data for July 2005 to estimate the
number of seniors who have Medicare Part B without Part A coverage
(Part B seniors). We...
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ACA Litigation: Politics Pursued through Other Means
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 485–499.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in 2020, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) explicit plans to leverage the budget reconciliation process—with its advantage of only needing a majority of votes in the Senate—to advance Medicare buy-in and public option proposals. As with the ACA, future health reform laws, especially partisan ones...
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The Affordable Care Act versus Medicare for All
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 911–921.
Published: 01 August 2015
... and relying on state governments. Consider the ACA's reliance on employer-provided insurance. Under Medicare for All, an individual would be covered regardless of a change in employment. By contrast, under the ACA an individual who loses his or her job will usually lose insurance because buying COBRA...
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Between Welfare Medicine and Mainstream Entitlement: Medicaid at the Political Crossroads
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (5): 821–858.
Published: 01 October 2003
... were these expansions
gradually converted into federal mandates. For example, coverage of chil-
dren under age five up to 100 percent of poverty was a state option in 1986
but in 1987 became a federal mandate. Similarly, the Medicare “buy-in”
(described below) was optional in 1986 but required...
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The Effect of State Regulations on the Quality and Sale of Insurance Policies to Medicare Beneficiaries
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 12 (1): 53–76.
Published: 01 February 1987
... government,
Medicare, Social Security, or the Veterans Administration?
3. Did the agent exert pressure to buy a policy?
4. Did the agent say the premium would be available for a limited time only?
5. Did the agent try to frighten the respondent (e.g., by suggesting the fi-
nancial...
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Health Care of the Disadvantaged: The Elderly
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (2): 259–269.
Published: 01 April 1990
... by Duke University Press 1990 References Congressional Budget Office. 1988 . The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act o. 1988. Staff working paper. Davis , Karen . 1975 . Equal Treatment and Unequal Benefits: The Medicare Program. Mil-bank Memorial Fund Quarterly 53 ( 4 ): 449 -88...
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Hospital Care for the “Self-Pay” Patient
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1988) 13 (1): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 1988
... on the propensity of hospitals to accept such patients for treatment. Our analysis pays particular attention to the relationship between Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS) and hospitals' self-pay patient share. Our results show an overall increase in both the number and proportion of self-pay patients...
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Why We Need Health Care Reform Now
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (3): 597–601.
Published: 01 June 2011
... buy insurance to self-insure instead. States’
requirements vary for the 45 percent of employees covered by regulated
insurance. Some states do not mandate comprehensive benefits, and
many reduce minimum coverage for student health policies (Government
Accountability Office 2003...
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Competitive Pricing and the Challenge of Cost Control in Medicare
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (4): 649–689.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of the Medicare
program.
The concerns from which these competitive-pricing efforts arose go
back to the very beginning of the Medicare program, when providers suc-
cessfully sought to limit the government’s exercise of its buying power.
Note the following report from the U.S. General Accounting Office...
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Prospective Payment in Perspective
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (4): 633–645.
Published: 01 December 1986
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that health expenditures could be controlled. The major step to extend the medical
franchise taken with the enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in
1965 had set off a spiral of health care inflation that blocked essentially all further
initiatives to improve access to care in the United...
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Medicare Revisited: A Look Through the Past to the Future
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 9 (4): 669–681.
Published: 01 August 1985
...Robert W. Rosenblum This paper examines the elderly's out-of-pocket health care expenditures by category of expense, before and after the inception of Medicare. It describes the shifting of out-of-pocket expenses from hospital care to nursing-home care, while physician services and drugs have...
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Consumer Choice in Health Insurance Exchanges: Can We Make It Work?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (1): 209–235.
Published: 01 February 2014
... to incentivize consumer participation. In Massachusetts, the majority of unsubsidized nongroup purchasers (about 75 percent) buys directly from insurance carriers (Lischko and Manzolillo 2010 ). (Half of new unsubsidized purchasers, however, bought through the exchange.) Only Vermont will require all individual...
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The ACA's Choice Problem
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 501–515.
Published: 01 August 2020
... it was incorporated into the blueprint for President Clinton's attempt at health reform, the Health Security Act (H.R. 3600, 103d Cong. [1993–94]). Although that reform failed, the idea lived on in the design of the Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage and Medicare Advantage, where Medicare beneficiaries can...
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