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How to fix Medicare : let's pay patients, not physicians / Roger Feldman.

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Author/Creator:
Feldman, Roger D.
Language:
English
Imprint:
Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2008.
Format:
  • Book
  • vii, 107 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105).
Contents:
  • History of Medicare physician payment policy
  • Goal and flaws of Medicare physician payment policy
  • Not-so-real reforms
  • Real reform : Medicare indemnities
  • Medicare supplementary insurance must go
  • Physician market power and indemnities
  • Let's give it a try : a demonstration of indemnities.
Publisher's Summary:
Health economist Roger Feldman argues that a radical shift in Medicare policy is not only possible but imperative. Under Feldman's medical indemnity proposal, Medicare would pay each patient a fixed amount of money, reserving larger subsidies for sicker people. Feldman argues that a radical shift in Medicare policy is not only possible but imperative.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Series:
AEI studies on Medicare reform.
Subjects:
ISBN:
9780844742656
0844742651

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