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The Elderly And Health Care Rationing, George P. Smith Ii
The Elderly And Health Care Rationing, George P. Smith Ii
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “The allocation of health care resources involves a societal determination of what resources should be devoted to a particular program. The allocation process is typically performed on a ―macro‖ level, with allocation decisions often affecting only statistical lives. In contrast to the identifiable lives often affected by health care rationing, statistical lives affected by allocation decisions are much more readily sacrificed. A common means of deciding health care allocation is through political processes. Government decisions pertaining to health care spending and regulation typically involve allocation determinations. For example, the Medicare and Medicaid programs allocate resources for numerous purposes. Hospitals, …
Entitlements: Not Just A Health Care Problem, Andrew G. Biggs
Entitlements: Not Just A Health Care Problem, Andrew G. Biggs
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “A new consensus on entitlement reform has developed in Washington: rising per-capita health care spending is the only real crisis besetting the government‘s entitlement programs, while America‘s aging population and Social Security play minor roles at best. Some cite this view to shift the policy emphasis from entitlement cost control to the restructuring of the U.S. health sector, including private health care. But this new consensus is flawed. Using standard accounting practices and including all major government entitlement programs, population aging will play an equal role with health care cost growth over the next seventy-five years and a significantly …
The Ethics Of Health Care Reform: Unintended Consequences Of Payment Schemes And Regulatory Mandates, Rebecca D. Elon
The Ethics Of Health Care Reform: Unintended Consequences Of Payment Schemes And Regulatory Mandates, Rebecca D. Elon
Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
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To Pay Or Not To Pay: Medicare And The Preventable Adverse Event: A Rational Decision Of Dangerous Philosophical Change, Amy J. Chaho M.D.
To Pay Or Not To Pay: Medicare And The Preventable Adverse Event: A Rational Decision Of Dangerous Philosophical Change, Amy J. Chaho M.D.
Journal of Law and Health
The proposed Medicare reimbursement schedule intended to become effective in October 2008 represents a drastic change to the traditional policy of payment for needed services. The proposal mandates that certain preventable adverse events should not be reimbursed. This spending scheme is intended to improve quality while decreasing cost to the Medicare system. The goals of the spending scheme are laudable. Quality improvement, when used to improve the health, safety and general welfare of the intended patient beneficiary of the Medicare program, is a rational and compelling government interest that warrants coercive use of authorized spending power. This beneficial interest may …