How to Fix Medicare: Let's Pay Patients, Not Physicians (Aie Studies on Medicare Reform) Pdf

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Release: 2008-06-27
Publisher: Aei Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0844742651
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How to Fix Medicare pdf
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Should Medicare pay for patient expenses the way automobile insurers pay for car—repair bills?

Medicare's current method of paying physicians sets fees for more than 8,000 separate procedures and services, totaling over billion annually. With Medicare's formulas underpaying for some services and overpaying for others, this complex system is an inefficient use of resources that discourages the use of primary care in favor of more expensive specialty services. Provided with virtually unlimited medical services at low or no cost, patients today have little incentive to choose their care wisely.

In How to Fix Medicare: Let's Pay Patients, Not Physicians, 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. Patients, in turn, would select their own medical Download How to Fix Medicare for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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