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Renewing the Promise: Medicare and Its Reform by Mark Schlesinger, Pamela Brown Drumheller, etc., David Blumenthal (Hardcover, 1988)

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Product Description : Renewing the Promise: Medicare and Its Reform This is a timely comprehensive examination of the history current status and future prospects of Medicare It provides an analysis of Medicares accomplishments and failings an assessment of alternative approaches to remedying the problems a discussion of the principles that can guide the choice among options and the authors recommendations for reform The book is based on a careful consideration of the health care needs of the elderly and reflects the work of physicians gerontologists lawyers former Medicare administrators health economists political scientists and experts on government and public policy Professionals and policymakers will appreciate this thoughtful examination of the Medicare program

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No programme in the history of domestic federal legislation has done more to promote the health and well-being of America's elderly and disabled than Medicare. Yet Medicare has its flaws, and there are reasons for concern about its future. Changes in the health care system - some of them hastened by Medicare - have rendered parts of its original design obsolete. Compromises that were necessary in 1965 to ensure the legislation was passed have come back to haunt the programme, in the form of escalating costs and red tape. Participants in the Harvard Medicare Project here assess the programme on its 20th anniversary. They look at the challenges facing Medicare, and suggest specific improvements. The product of two years' study, the book analyses Medicare's successes and failures, and the key issues raised by the programme, in a clear, informative way. Those interested in issues of health care provision.