The struggle for the soul of medicare

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 410-415

  Vladeck, Bruce C ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Health Care Financing Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; MEDICARE;

EID: 5044232717     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2004.tb00151.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. The classic political history is still R. Harris, A Sacred Trust (New York: New American Library, 1966).
2. J. Oberlander, The Political Life of Medicare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003): at 4-7 et. passim.
3. Id., at 1-4, 157ff.
4. See "Toplines: The Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health National Survey of the Public's Views on Medicare," (Washington: The Kaiser Foundation, 2003), at 〈http://www.kff.org/Medicare/loader. ctm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.ctm&PageID=14304〉 (last visited June 30, 2004).
5. For an empirical examination of this view, see H.L. Wilensky, The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public Expenditures (Berkeley, University of California Press): xi-xvi. et passim.; for a more theoretical statement, see R. Dahrendorf, Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
6. For an empirical examination of this view, see H.L. Wilensky, The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public Expenditures (Berkeley, University of California Press): xi-xvi. et passim.; for a more theoretical statement, see R. Dahrendorf, Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
7. T.R. Marmor, The Politics of Medicare (Chicago: Aldine, 1973): 20-23.
8. R. Pear, "Frist Expects Congress to Try to Expand Health Coverage," New York Times, February 7, 2004, 7:5.
9. 2004 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplemental Insurance Trust Funds (Washington: March 23, 2004): 22-31.
10. I b i d.
11. See "The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2005-2014," by D. Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office, before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, January 27, 2004, at 〈http:// www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4988& sequence=0〉 (last visited June 30, 2004).
12. M. Moon and M. Storeygard, "Solvency or Affordability? Ways to Measure Medicare's Health," prepared for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, March, 2002.
13. For example, see S. Woolhandler, T. Campbell, and D.U. Himmelstein, "Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada," New England Journal of Medicine 349 (2003): 768-775.
14. See Economic Report of the President (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2004): 194ff.
15. T. Rice, The Economics of Health Reconsidered, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Health Administration Press/Academy Health, 2003): 164-166.
16. . B.S. Cooper and S. How, "Medicare's Future: Current Picture, Trends, and Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement & Modernization Act of 2003 - Selected Charts," The Commonwealth Fund, Updated February 24, 2004, at 〈http://www.cmwf.org/programs/medfutur/medicarechtpk_debate_ 659.pdf〉 (last visited June 28, 2004): at 20, author's calculations.
17. Id., at 22.
18. Id., at 18.
19. Id., at 14.
20. National Academy of Social Insurance, Financing Medicare's Future: Final Report of the Study Panel on Medicare's Long Term Financing - Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term Project (Washington, DC: National Academy of Social Insurance, 2000): at 23 et passim.
21. B.S. Cooper and B.C. Vladeck, "Perspective: Bringing Competitive Pricing to Medicare," Health Affairs 19, no. 5 (2000): 49-54.
22. See, for example, the issue of Health Affairs 10, no. 4 (1991) - the closest thing the health policy community has to its own L'Osservatore Romano, entitled, "Managed Care: Key to Health Insurance Reform?"
23. B. Vobejda and J.F. Harris, "Democrats Pounce on GOP Medicare Comments," Washington Post, October 27, 1995 at A4.
24. See M.A. Peterson, "Introduction: Politics, Misperception, or Apropos," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24 (October, 1999): 873-886; the introduction is to a special issue devoted to "The HMO Backlash."
25. H.J. Aaron and R.D. Reischauer, "The Medicare Reform Debate: What Is the Next Step," Health Affairs 14, no. 4 (1995): 8-30.
26. Oberlander, supra note 2, at 187.
27. P.L. 108-173, "The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003," Section 801.