Backgrounder posted September 15, 1999 by Sandra Mahkorn
How Not to Reform Medicare: Lessons From the Medicare+Choice Experiment
Medicare, the huge and financially
troubled health program covering almost 40 million elderly and
disabled citizens, is in desperate need of reform. In recognition
of this fact, a majority of members of the National Bipartisan
Commission on the Future of Medicare have proposed significant
structural changes in Medicare based on expanding patient choice
and relying…
Backgrounder posted June 18, 1999 by Sandra Mahkorn
Why an Unreformed Medicare System is Hazardous to Your Health
Too many Medicare
patients are unaware that the quality of their health care is in
jeopardy. The almost 40 million older adults and disabled persons
who are covered by Medicare are subject to the most aggressively
managed and overregulated health plan in the United States. In
fact, the federal health care regulations, rulings, and paperwork
pertaining to Medicare…
Executive Summary posted June 18, 1999 by Sandra Mahkorn
Executive Summary: Why an Unreformed Medicare System is Hazardous to Your Health
Too many
Medicare patients are unaware that the quality of their health care
is in jeopardy. The almost 40 million older adults and disabled
persons who are covered by Medicare are subject to the most
aggressively managed and overregulated health plan in the United
States. In fact, the federal health care regulations, rulings, and
paperwork pertaining to Medicare…
Backgrounder posted October 10, 1995 by Sandra Mahkorn
Cutting Red Tape on Clinical Labs: Why Congress Should Deregulate Doctors
Introduction
While Members of Congress try to reform Medicare and reduce the
paperwork burden on doctors and patients, they also should realize
that doctors' medical laboratories are caught in a web of
government red tape that adds billions of dollars to America's
health care costs. This misguided regulatory intervention is based
on faulty data; has caused the…