Medicare
Overview: Medicare is an important source of health-care coverage for almost all Americans aged 65 and over. It can also be one of the most confusing subjects with which citizens must contend. Among the first books to examine the impact of the 2010 health-care reforms on the program, Medicare reviews Medicare's history, explores its current coverages and problems, and takes a look at its probable future. Readers will learn about attempts to pass Medicare legislation, as well as about many of th…
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- Full title :Medicare / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.
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Overview: Medicare is an important source of health-care coverage for almost all Americans aged 65 and over. It can also be one of the most confusing subjects with which citizens must contend. Among the first books to examine the impact of the 2010 health-care reforms on the program, Medicare reviews Medicare's history, explores its current coverages and problems, and takes a look at its probable future. Readers will learn about attempts to pass Medicare legislation, as well as about many of the important changes that have occurred since 1965. They will read about continuing cost concerns over the years and about modifications in both hospital and physician payment approaches. Critically for today's readers, the book examines current issues, such as drug coverage, HMO/managed care options, long-term-care coverage, the demographic-based funding crisis, Medicaid, and the impact of recent health-care reforms. The goal throughout is to help consumers understand Medicare so we can insure that the program remains strong.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Greenwood
- Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 199 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780313364051, 0313364052, 9780313364068, 0313364060
- oclc:ocn606787524
- LC Classification:RA412.3
- Dewey Decimal:368.4/2600973
Table of Contents
The history behind the passage of Medicare -- Early issues and early changes in Medicare : implementation and costs -- Changes in Medicare in the 1980s to late 1990s : a focus on types of cost reforms -- Current issues in Medicare : drug coverage, HMOs/managed care options, and other federal government programs for health care coverage -- Long-term care coverage, Medicare and the demographic-based funding crisis and health care reform.
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