'Rethinking Medicare Reform' Needs Rethinking

Health Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-71

  Aaron, Henry J ^a   Reischauer, Robert D ^a  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICARE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NOTE; UNITED STATES;

BUDGETS; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HUMANS; MEDICARE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347243167     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.17.1.69     Document Type: Review

References (5)

1. See R.D. Reischauer, "Medicare: Beyond 2002," in Policy Options for Reforming the Medicare Program: Papers from the Princeton Conference on Medicare Reform, ed. S.H. Altman, U.E. Reinhardt, and D. Shactman (Waltham, Mass.: Institute for Health Policy, Brandeis University, July 1997), 97-111.
2. H.J. Aaron and R.D. Reischauer, "The Medicare Reform Debate: What Is the Next Step?" Health Affairs (Winter 1995): 8-30; S.M. Butler and R.E. Moffit, "The FEHBP as a Model for a New Medicare Program," Health Affairs (Winter 1995): 47-61; and D.B. Kendall, "A New Deal for Medicare and Medicaid: Building a Buyer's Market for Health Care," Policy Report (October 1995).
3. H.J. Aaron and R.D. Reischauer, "The Medicare Reform Debate: What Is the Next Step?" Health Affairs (Winter 1995): 8-30; S.M. Butler and R.E. Moffit, "The FEHBP as a Model for a New Medicare Program," Health Affairs (Winter 1995): 47-61; and D.B. Kendall, "A New Deal for Medicare and Medicaid: Building a Buyer's Market for Health Care," Policy Report (October 1995).
4. H.J. Aaron and R.D. Reischauer, "The Medicare Reform Debate: What Is the Next Step?" Health Affairs (Winter 1995): 8-30; S.M. Butler and R.E. Moffit, "The FEHBP as a Model for a New Medicare Program," Health Affairs (Winter 1995): 47-61; and D.B. Kendall, "A New Deal for Medicare and Medicaid: Building a Buyer's Market for Health Care," Policy Report (October 1995).
5. Under the QMB provisions, Medicaid pays the Part B premiums and cost-sharing amounts for Medicare beneficiaries with incomes below the federal poverty level. Under the SLIMB provisions, Medicaid pays the Part B premiums for those with incomes between the poverty line and 120 percent of that level. In addition, a portion of current Medicaid expenditures on dual eligibles (those covered by both Medicaid and Medicare) are for services that would be included in an expanded Medicare benefits package.