Paying for Medicare: The Politics of Reform (Social Institutions and Social Change Series)

** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature. The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at policy innovation in history continue to shape decisions about Medicare and cost containment efforts. Smith shows how particular policy alternatives were developed; why chosen or rejected; and how provider interests and American political institutions have shaped their design and implementation.

SMITH, DAVID G.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Routledge

Entitlement Politics: Medicare and Medicaid, 1995-2001 (Social Institutions and Social Change Series)

Entitlement Politics describes partisan attempts to shrink the size of government by targeting two major federal health care entitlements. Efforts to restructure or eliminate entitlements as such, and to privatize and decentralize programs, along with more traditional attempts to amend and reform Medicare and Medicaid have radically transformed policymaking with respect to these programs. However, they have failed to achieve fundamental or lasting reform. Smith combines historical narrative and case studies with descriptions of the technical aspects and dynamics of policymaking to help the consumer understand how the process has changed, evaluate particular policies and outcomes, and anticipate future possibilities. His account intentionally goes at some length into the substance of the programs, the policies that are involved, and the views of different protagonists about the major issues in the dispute. One unhealthy consequence of politicizing Medicare and Medicaid policy has been to separate public debate from the technical and organizational realities underlying issues of cost containment or program structure. Smith considers this development unfortunate, since it leaves even informed citizens unable to evaluate the claims being made. Ironically, strife over Medicare has complicated the political and policy issues in American life. Only a serious and genuine bipartisan effort bringing forth the best efforts of both political parties--and some of the best industry leaders and policy experts in the field--is likely to achieve genuine reform. The more people and parties know about the history, politics, and policies of these programs, the better our prospects for devising workable, equitable, and lasting solutions. This volume leads the way toward that understanding.

Business & Money

Cases and Applications in dBASE III Plus

Science & Math

Mathematics

Irwin Professional Publishing

A comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of the planet Earth includes examinations of its geology, physics, oceanography, chemistry, and evolution

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Cambridge University Press

A Geologic Time Scale 1989 (Cambridge Earth Science Series)

Harland, W. B.

Armstrong, R. L.

Cox, A. V.

Craig, L. E.

Smith, A.G.

Reviews the time scales used in geology to date stratigraphic sequences and to define the geologic epocks. The text presents, discusses and evaluates the state of chronostratigraphic, chronometric and other scales. This includes a revised calibration in years of the standard stratigraphic scale.

A Geologic Time Scale 1982 (Cambridge Earth Science Series)

This book is the planned successor to A Geologic Time Scale by W. B. Harland, A. V. Cox, P. G. Llewellyn, C. A. G. Pickton, A. G. Smith and R. Walters published in 1982. It adopts the same style and employs and develops similar methods, but it has been entirely reworked. The state of the art 1989 is thus presented; but the data assembled provide a source of reference which will serve for some years. The work develops and assesses a new calibration of the geologic time scale employing a new database. The new scale is summarized on the book covers and on a wall chart to be published separately. The work has been coordinated in detail throughout; nevertheless each chapter can stand on its own.

Armstrong, Richard L.

Smith, Alan G.

Harland, W. Brian

Cox, Allen V.

Craig, Lorraine E.

The Music Stops & the Waltz Continues

Salem House Publishers

MUSIC STOPS WALTZ

RH Canada UK Dist

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