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Record Nr.

UNINA9910693723903321

Titolo

Medicare : preparing for the Challenges of the 21st Century / / Robert D. Reischauer [and three others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Baltimore, Maryland?], : Social Security Administration

Washington, D.C. : , : Brookings Institution Press, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

0-8157-9167-4

0-585-04165-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 329 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SSA publication ; ; no. 05-10943

Disciplina

368.42600973

Soggetti

Medicare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contract and Medicare reform / Stuart Butler -- Pundits, people, and Medicare reform / Theda Skocpol -- Reflections on how Medicare came about / Robert M. Ball -- Social insurance commentary / E.J. Dionne -- Preparing for the retirement of the baby boomers / Joseph R. Antos -- Medicare beneficiary as consumer / Stan Jones -- Structuring choice under Medicare / Roger Feldman and Bryan Dowd -- Restructuring Medicare : the role of public and private purchasing alliances / James C. Robinson and Patricia E. Powers -- Carve-outs for Medicare : possible benefits and risks / Melinda Beeuweks Buntin and David Blumenthal -- Medicare Fee-for-Service system : applying managed care techniques / Peter D. Fox -- Organizational models for restructuring Fee-for-Service Medicare / David G. Smith -- Leadership and politics : four views / Anthony Beilenson, Sheila Burke, Haynes Johnson, and John Rother -- Public opinion and Medicare restructuring : three views / Karlyn Bowman, Robert J. Blendon, and Celinda J. Lake.

Sommario/riassunto

Papers presented at the ninth annual conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance, which was held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23-24, 1996.