Health care and insurance plan experts, including representatives from Harvard, Brown, and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), discussed the Medicare payment system, and made suggestion…
185 viewsGail Wilensky and Robert Berenson, both former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrators, talked about the 50th anniversary of Medicare. Among other topics they discussed whe…
498 viewsPanelists talked about the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, also known as “doc fix,” for paying doctors who treat Medicare patients. Panelists included the Center for Medicare and Med…
459 viewsFormer Medicare administrators and other health care scholars talked about Medicare costs and various proposals to reduce the high cost of health care. The new health care reform law require…
345 viewsParticipants talked about recently passed Medicare reform legislation that included a prescription drug benefit. Among the issues they addressed were the potential negative affects on recipi…
42 viewsSenator Jay Rockefeller Democrat from West Virginia and Judy Feder of the Health and Human services planning office spoke to a meeting of the National Health Policy Council on the need for …
75 viewsMembers of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform spoke in a panel session during a symposium on health care reform. Issues brought up in the speakers' remarks included universal h…
44 viewsThe guests discussed the state of American health care systems and plans for restructuring health care in America.
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