Top policy experts offer Medicare reform solutions for the millions of
seniors whose health care depends on America's fastest growing federal
entitlement.
In Modernizing Medicare, editors Robert Emmet Moffit and Marie Fishpaw
bring together a rare combination of leading scholars and policy
practitioners to outline a vision for Medicare reform and provide
solutions for the millions of seniors whose health care depends on it.
Contributors include a former Medicare trustee, a former Medicare
administrator, and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Detailing Medicare's biggest problems, this team of top policy experts
offer solutions based on personal freedom of choice, transparency of
price and performance, and market competition among health plans and
providers that will secure patients more affordable, more accountable,
and higher quality medical care. They also address Medicare's reform
needs and analyze the promising performance of the Medicare Advantage
program. The authors outline Medicare's major financial problems and the
best solutions for Medicare patients and taxpayers alike. While
Medicare's accelerating spending is generating higher deficits and debt,
standard cost-control strategies--such as payment reductions and price
controls--jeopardize patients' access to high-quality care.
Contributors: Joseph R. Antos, PhD; Doug Badger; Charles P. Blahous,
PhD; Walton F. Francis; John C. Goodman, PhD; Edmund F. Haislmaier;
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, PhD; Brian J. Miller, MD, MBA, MPH; Robert Emmet
Moffit, PhD; Mark V. Pauly, PhD; Christopher M. Pope, PhD; Gail R.
Wilensky, PhD.
