Medicare

"Single-payer" approach. All legal residents covered by Medicare, with expanded and rationalized benefits package and no copayments. Particular emphasis on community medicine. States could choose to opt out for residents under age 65 by designing their own system under federal guidelines.

A modified "play or pay" approach that creates incentives for workers and employers to buy into "Medicare Plus," a national program based on Medicare.

Survey published by the New England Journal of Medicine shows strong physician support for mixed public-private proposal.

State Solutions was designed to increase enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs). These programs, funded through Medicaid, help low-income Medicare beneficiaries with their out-of-pocket medical costs.

If health insurance companies submitted competitive bids to offer Medicare coverage, President Obama says the government could save billions of dollars.

This policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, part of a newly launched series of briefings, looks inside the debate over cutting payments to the "Medicare Advantage" programs.

The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 created prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries (Medicare Part D) through regional stand-alone prescription drug plans and regional preferred provider organizations (PPOs).

In this 2004 to 2006 project, Steven D. Pizer, Ph.D., led a team of researchers in analyzing entry, enrollment and risk selection (the process by which health plans seek to enroll healthy, low-cost subscribers) of Medicare presc...

From 1999 to 2003, researchers from the Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs, a nonprofit health policy research organization based in Millwood, Va., examined how Medicare beneficiaries fared after their health maintenance organizations (HMOs) closed, forcing them to seek new insurance coverage.

The study focused on beneficiaries who were especially vulnerable to the loss of HMO coverage because of chronic illness and/o...

From 1997 to 2003, the Oregon Health Policy Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University conducted an independent evaluation of five demonstration projects in three states designed to implement and evaluate state efforts to remove barriers to employment for disabled people by increasing access to health care through Medicaid and Medicare as people become employed.

The project was part of the Robert Wood...

During 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Western Consortium for Public Health explored the impact of reductions in Medicare and Medicaid spending on the levels of uncompensated care that hospitals provide to the medically indigent.

The research team analyzed data from a national database that they had constructed, which integrated hospital-specific information on operations and performance with market-level information on managed care penetration, demographics and state regulatory st...