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Release: 2009-11-16
Publisher: Aei Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 084474283X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge pdf
Description
In an unplanned natural experiment between two fundamentally different program designs, the federal government has operated two major health insurance programs side by side for nearly fifty years: Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). Until a recent government decision to place it in the same tax-preferred status as most private-insurer health insurance, the FEHBP consistently outperformed Medicare in cost control; it still outperforms Medicare in service, benefit generosity, fraud prevention, and protection from catastrophically high health care expenses. In Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge: Lessons from the FEHBP, Walton Francis analyzes the successes and failures of both programs and proposes reforms that will revive the FEHBP and improve Medicare.
Francis contends that the most needed reform for Medicare and the FEHBP is to reduce the tax preference for unlimited employee health care spending, a subsidy that swamps market incentives and Download Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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