Medicare: now do it right

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Assn's (AMA's) plan for Medicare reform is based on the idea that patients are entitled to greater choice in how to receive care, and that individual responsibility, along with financial incentives and reduced administrative costs, can lower total Medicare costs. Also, the AMA insists that Medicare recipients should be allowed to choose their own doctors and that antitrust rules should be changed so that physicians and other networks are able to compete with the health insurance industry.

Medicare B, Medicare A, Planning

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Medicare transformation

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Association (AMA) has developed a plan to address the fundamental flaws of Medicare. Under the comprehensive plan, beneficiaries would be given healthcare vouchers based on the government's standard contribution to their traditional Medicare plan. Restructured premiums and deductibles would reduce net costs for an estimate 90% of Medicare beneficiaries. The AMA plan would also increase the eligibilty age for Medicare to 67 and require more affluent Americans to pay more for Medicare.

Health Care Services, Analysis, Management, Medical care

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Per-capita caps leave providers leery; limits once seen as preferable to Medicaid block grants, but are they needed now?

Article Abstract:

The 1997 debate over the future of Medicare in the budget has changed from those of the two previous years, with moderating Medicare growth, and the control of expenditures by states. The per-capita cap would stabilize by the year 2000 according to the Clinton administration's new budget. Peters Willson of the National Association of Children's Hospitals credits this to administration flexibility and effects of Medicare spending trends.

Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Hospital and medical service plans, Medical Care Insurance, Medicaid, Health insurance

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