Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins and policy gestation
  • Development, growing appeal, and passage of prospective payment
  • The phase-in years and beginning of "rough justice" for hospitals
  • Medicare policy's subordination to budget policy, increased hospital cost shifting, and the rise of managed care
  • The resource-based relative-value scale reforms for physician payment
  • The calm before the storm
  • The reckoning and reversal
  • Conclusion : how medicare does and should shape U.S. health care.