Janice MacKinnon MEDICARE ’ S MID - LIFE CRISIS

The US Medical Liability System—A System in Crisis

JSLS (2004)8:1-2 1 The United States health care system has been a role model for the rest of the world, but an unparalleled rise in health care costs has threatened the availability of affordable health care to a large segment of US society. Many reasons exist as to why this crisis has come to pass: an aging population, an outdated Medicare program, Medicare cuts, lack of affordable health ins...

Pharmacy utilization and the Medicare Modernization Act.

To control expenditures and use medications appropriately, the Medicare drug coverage program has established pharmacy utilization management (PUM) measures. This article assesses the effects of these strategies on the care of seniors. The literature suggests that although caps on drug benefits lower pharmaceutical costs, they may also increase the use of other health care services and hurt hea...

نقش دولت در توزیع امکانات بهداشتی و درمانی در استان همدان

Objective: Health and Medicare issue plays a vital role in socio-economic life of the people in any society. That is why most of the economic planners expect much more from public health sector, including creating jobs, revenues and healthy social opportunities in addition to basic health necessities. The main objective of the present study is to measure the level of development of differen...

Imagining Medicare: Visions of the Future

Medicare’s salience to health policy and American politics is suffi ciently obvious that it needs no explanation. Yet scholarly attention to Medicare has never matched its fi scal and political signifi cance. Medicare has long been on the margins of political science, while book-length treatments of Medicare policy have been rare. That relative obscurity, though, is about to end. To date, atten...

Preventive medicine: a "cure" for the healthcare crisis.