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Modernizing Medicare cost-sharing
— policy options and impacts of beneficiary and program expenditures | | Author(s) | Stephanie Maxwell, Matthew Storeygard, Marilyn Moon |
| Corporate Author | Commonwealth Fund; Urban Institute |
| Publisher | Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, 2002 |
| Pages | 30 pp (Program on Medicare's future, ref 571) |
| Source | The Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021-2692, USA. |
| Keywords | Health services ; Health insurance ; Costs [care] ; Expenditure [care] ; Social policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Because of a softening economy, a shrinking federal budget surplus, and new national security priorities, the attention of US policymakers has shifted away from issues that were top of the agenda during much of 2001. This paper takes its cue from these events, to discuss modest policy options that could modernise and improve the cost-sharing structure of the Medicare benefit package, reduce financial burdens on beneficiaries who are the sickest, and impose little or no additional federal spending requirements. After reviewing trends in private sector benefit packages, the authors developed and simulated the impact of several modest designs for modernising cost-sharing under Medicare. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070719002 B |
| Classmark | L: WPG: QDC: QD: TM2: 7T |
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