Medicare reform: obstacles and options

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Several obstacles, challenges and options surround efforts to reform Medicare. Policy debate has focused on two broad approaches to restructuring the Medicare program. These were the shift from pay-as-you-go financing to prefunding and shift from open-ended federal payments to a defined contribution. A Medicare Commission was established to sort through the proposals and make recommendations to Congress on policies designed to promote the viability of the program in the future.

Health Care Services, Analysis, Medical care, Medical policy, Health policy

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Canadian national health insurance and infant health

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The implementation of national health insurance (NHI) in Canada resulted in a decrease in infant mortality rate by 4%. NHI is also credited for reducing low birth weight incidence by 1.3%. Results further show that NHI has greater effect on single mothers than married ones. Finally, the study showed that the NHI is associated with an 8.9% decline in low birth weight among single mothers.

National Health Insurance, Research, Canada, Evaluation, Patient outcomes, Mortality, Birth weight, Low, Low birth weight, Infants, Infant mortality, Insurance

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Making the transition to prepaid Medicare

Article Abstract:

The best way to tackle an efficient reform of Medicare is to introduce a system of privatized individual accounts. This approach would raise a number of issues.

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