Econ 309 Medicare & Medicaid
For interest:
Medicaid sucks, and just gets suckier with the states' budget problems. (New York Times, March 15, 2010)
Medicaid payment rates as a percent of average physician pay by state (Washington Post, July 24, 2012)
Medicaid saves lives! (New York Times, July 26, 2012) At a cost of about $1,000,000 per life saved
Check out what is happening with Arizona's Medicaid: Arizona Budget Cuts Put Organ Transplants at Risk (NPR, November 17, 2010)
Medicare Plan D has a long run deficit of $7.2 TRILLION!!
How Medicare Pays Physicians (Uwe Reinhardt, New York Times, December 3, 2010)
Medicare Plan D and Financial Protection for the Elderly (Gary Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber, NBER July 2010)
How bad is Medicare's funding?
Bruce Bartlett (August 20, 2010)
Stanford G. Ross & David M. Walker (New York Times, August 15, 2010)
How does Medicare decide how much to pay for a procedure? "Relative Value Units" (RVUs). (Slate, Sept. 2, 2009)
More on RVU's (Uwe Reinhardt, New York Times, December 10, 2010)
People are idiots, just idiots. "Tell government to keep its hands off my Medicare!" (Slate, Sept. 28, 2009)
What is the effect of mandatory waiting periods before children can get onto SCHIP? (2008) Forum for Health Economics & Policy