Bring market prices to Medicare!
Subtitle: essential reform at a time of fiscal crisis
By: Robert Coulam, Roger Feldman, and Bryan E. Dowd.
Contributors: Feldman, Roger D.; Dowd, Bryan.
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780844743219
Subjects: Medicare -- Economic aspects; Health care reform -- United States; Medicare -- economics; Competitive Medical Plans -- economics -- United States; Economic Competition -- United States; Health Care Reform -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The purposes of Medicare; title: Five ways to pay Medicare health plans; title: Technical issues in competitive pricing for Medicare; title: Estimating the savings from competitive pricing in Medicare; title: Should FFS Medicare be allowed greater flexibility?; title: The uneasy relationship of competitive bidding to the law and politics of Medicare; title: No need for a demonstration : a gradual transition to reform should start now.