Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Medicare
Insurance expansion does not pose risk to people already with coverage
Does expanding health insurance result in adverse consequences for those already with coverage? No. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the Affordable Care Act has expanded access to preventive services to as many as 71 million people. Continue Reading …
SGR Fix Requires Risk for Doctors
The SGR represents an annual fiscal cliff for doctors yet the political will to fix the problem eludes Congress. Over the last decade, Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula has become a troubling financial topic for policy makers and physicians Continue Reading …
Poor P4P Incentives Don’t Work
In an era of cost containment, payers and policy makers have championed the use of pay-for-performance. Recently, Medicare has initiated a pay-for-performance (P4P) policy of nonpayment for hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). One recent New England Journal of Medicine article examined the Continue Reading …
Raising the Medicare Age to 67
Changes to Medicare would merely shift costs to the private sector or onto seniors. One solution to nation’s deficit and debt problems, by reducing entitlement spending, is an increase in Medicare eligibility age. A recent analysis by the CBO found Continue Reading …
2013 Affordable Care Act Update
The Affordable Care Act has brought some of the most fundamental changes to health care and health insurance in a generation. The biggest cultural change – the individual mandate – will not get underway until next year (2014). However, three Continue Reading …
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