Medicare and the American Health Care System. Report to the Congress, June 1995

摘要

;Contents: Issues in Health Care Financing and Spending (Trends in NationalHealth Care Expenditures, The Impact of Cost Containment, Controlling Overall Spending, Distributing the Growing Financial Burden, Conclusions and Challenges); Hospital Payments, Costs, and Financial Condition (Medicare Hospital Payments and Costs, Determinants of Hospital Costs, Changes in Hospital Revenues and Financial Performance, Conclusions); Health Care Use and Insurance Coverage (Medicare, Medicaid, Private Sector Coverage, Use of Managed Care, Quality, Access, Conclusions); Changing Relationships Among Providers (The Health Care Delivery System, Provider Organization and Integration, Hospital-Physician Relations, Regulatory Considerations, Implications of Market Change); State Health Care Costs, Payments, and Reforms (State Variation in Health Care Costs, State Variation in Hosptial Payments, Managed Care at the State Level, State Regulatory Activities, Conclusions).