LEADER 05418nam 2200973 450 001 9910820481003321 005 20230125200444.0 010 $a1-63157-547-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000769107 035 $a(BEP)4612326 035 $a(OCoLC)955878591 035 $a(CaBNVSL)swl00406775 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4612326 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4612326 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11238975 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL942080 035 $a(OCoLC)956646278 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000769107 100 $a20160805d2016 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHealth financing without deficits $ereform that sidesteps political gridlock /$fPhilip J. Romero and Randy S. Miller 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :$cBusiness Expert Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 123 pages) 225 1 $aEconomics collection,$x2163-7628 311 $a1-63157-546-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 117-118) and index. 327 $aPart I. The economy's vampire: health care -- 1. Health care, deficits, and the economy -- 2. The absent free market -- 3. The economy's vampire -- Part II. Three generations of reform proposals -- 4. The new deal and its progenitors -- 5. World War II, tax deductibility, and the Fair Deal -- 6. Medicare and Medicaid -- 7. Hillarycare and its progeny -- Part III. What is wrong with Democratic and Republican plans -- 8. 2016 plans -- Part IV. The key problems in American health policy -- 9. Problem I, unlimited demand due to third party payment -- 10. Problem II, high costs = poor access -- 11. Problem III, the health cartel -- 12. Obamacare -- 13. The shadow of 2018 -- Part V. A nonpartisan health financing alternative: HIRB -- 14. Bending the curve on funding health-care cost -- 15. Financing basics -- 16. HIRB and public policy -- 17. Why HIRB works -- 18. HIRB's robustness over a range of interest rates -- 19. A health insurance requisite -- 20. Summation -- 21. HIRB's versatility -- Part VI. Conclusion -- 22. What Democrats get wrong about health reform -- 23. What Republicans get wrong about health reform -- 24. The path to a sustainable health system -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- For more about HIRB -- Index. 330 3 $aAmerica's health system has been a polarizing issue in most presidential campaigns in our lifetimes. It is hardly surprising that an industry that consumes nearly one in every five dollars spent in the U.S. economy has loomed over our politics. Its only competition in the last few decades was the nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It will be prominent again in 2016 and beyond. This book will guide you through the fusillade of charges, and promises, you will hear in political campaigns about health care and "reform." They will occur now that the fiscal calamity of Boomer retirement is no longer a threat: it is here. For all the attention Social Security receives, Medicare is the truly scary entitlement program, with unfunded liabilities many times larger. This book also offers a powerful tool of reform. The Health Insurance Revenue Bond (HIRB) is a new and completely self-liquidating financing approach that fully funds escalating liabilities such as health care-- without deficits. If you can't bend the curve on health costs, bend the curve on the cost of funding. The HIRB program can assist governments in developed nations to begin the long and painful process of deleveraging. 410 0$aEconomics collection.$x2163-7628 606 $aHealth care reform$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aMedical policy$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aMedical care, Cost of$zUnited States 606 $aHealth Care Reform$xeconomics$zUnited States 606 $aHealth Policy$xeconomics$zUnited States 606 $aHealth Care Costs$zUnited States 610 $a2016 campaign 610 $aACA 610 $aAffordable Care Act 610 $abending the cost curve 610 $abond 610 $adeficit 610 $adeleveraging 610 $afinancing 610 $ahealth care 610 $ahealth finance 610 $ahealth policy 610 $ahealth reform 610 $ahealth security 610 $aHIRB 610 $ainflation 610 $aliabilities 610 $aMedicaid 610 $amedical inflation 610 $aMedicare 610 $amunicipal bond 610 $aOPEBs 610 $aother post employment benefits 610 $apensions 610 $apolitics 610 $apost retirement benefits 610 $apresidential campaign 610 $arevenue bond 610 $astates 615 0$aHealth care reform$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aMedical policy$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aMedical care, Cost of 615 2$aHealth Care Reform$xeconomics 615 2$aHealth Policy$xeconomics 615 2$aHealth Care Costs 676 $a362.10973 700 $aRomero$b Philip J.$01596044 702 $aMiller$b Randy S. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820481003321 996 $aHealth financing without deficits$93917224 997 $aUNINA