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Category: Medicare
Moving the Medicare Age up is Bad Medicine
A common goal for health reform is to decrease total health care expenditures. Adjusting the eligibility age for Medicare beneficiaries has the attraction of decreasing federal spending and shifting costs to private marketplaces. However, these reforms would detract from the Continue Reading …
Lives are Literally at Stake
In the United States, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women. One in eight women will be diagnosed with cancer in her lifetime. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40,000 women die Continue Reading …
Expanding ACO’s Beyond Medicare
In 2012, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) implemented a novel program in their efforts toward achieving the Triple Aim: Thirty-two organizations with experience in care coordination enrolled in the Medicare Pioneer accountable care organization program. During the Continue Reading …
Quality Disparities exist between Payers
Although providing health insurance to Americans who didn’t have prior coverage sounds like a good thing; not all insurance provides equal . Disparities exist in the quality of care specifically with Medicare patients. From facing higher risk of inpatient mortality Continue Reading …
The First Five Years of the ACA in Review
The (ACA) turned five in March of this year and the authors of this Health Policy Report in The New England Journal of Medicine describe the milestones that the law has reached so far: Since the implementation of the ACA, Continue Reading …