...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...

...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...

...James Bautz Bonanno; Terrie Wetle Although there has been increased interest in use of the health maintenance organization (HMO) model to resolve a variety of problems relating to provision of health care to older individuals, less than 2 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are currently enrolled...

...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...

...Jonathan Oberlander [email protected] Gerald Friedman . The Case for Medicare for All . Medford, MA : Polity Press , 2020 . 129 pp. $45.00 cloth, $12.95 paper, $10.00 e-book. Abdul El-Sayed , Micah Johnson . Medicare For All: A Citizen's...

...Erin C. Fuse Brown; Travis C. Williams; Roslyn C. Murray; David J. Meyers; Andrew M. Ryan Abstract The Medicare Advantage program was created to expand beneficiary choice and to reduce spending through capitated payment to private insurers. However, many stakeholders now argue that Medicare...

..., to link clinical guidelines to reimbursement, will likely prevail. We examine the utilization review programs of Medicare Part B carriers and the carriers' attempts to use clinical guidelines to determine medical necessity for the purpose of payment. We find that because the utilization review programs...

...David G. Smith Marilyn Moon. Medicare Now and in the Future . Lanham, MD: Urban Institute Press, 1993. 282 pp. $57.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 662 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Frankford, D. M. 1993a. The Complexity...

...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...

... Page 1 Editor’s Note 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...

...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...

..., Leesburg, VA, 21–23 October. Aaron, Henry J., and R. D. Reischauer. 1995 . The Medicare Reform Debate: What Is the Next Step? Health Affairs 14 (4): 8 -30. Blendon, R. J., M. Brodie, J. M. Benson, D. E. Altman, L. Levitt,T. Hoff, and L. Hugick. 1998 . Understanding the Managed Care Backlash...

...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...