What Medicare's architects had in mind.

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Research Article Health AffairsVol. 14, No. 4 What Medicare's Architects Had In MindRobert M. Ball AffiliationsHe served as commissioner of Social Security under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. He was a member of the Social Security Advisory Councils of 1979 and 1991 and is a member of the current Advisory Council. He also was a key member of the National Commission on Social Security Reform, which led to the 1983 Social Security amendments. After thirty years of service at the Social Security Administration, he was a senior scholar at the Institute of Medicine from 1973 to 1980. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and chairs its board of directorsPUBLISHED:Winter 1995No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.14.4.62AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleTOPICSMedicareElderly careSocial SecurityPrivate health insuranceHospital qualityFederal health plansHospital costsMedicare savings programsQuality of carePhysician payment Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 16 History Published online 1 January 1995 InformationCopyright © by Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.PDF downloadCited ByNavigating the Shifting Terrain of US Health Care Reform—Medicare for All, Single Payer, and the Public Option15 September 2019 | The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 97, No. 4Application of Economic Evaluation to Assess Feasibility for Reimbursement of Genomic Testing as Part of Personalized Medicine Interventions2 August 2019 | Frontiers in Pharmacology, Vol. 10The Future of Elderly Care in Nigeria: Borrowing a Leaf from a Foreign Land17 September 2014 | Ageing International, Vol. 40, No. 2Social policy and the internal dynamics of the senior rights movementJournal of Aging Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1What did Medicare do? The initial impact of Medicare on mortality and out of pocket medical spendingJournal of Public Economics, Vol. 92, No. 7Nonpayment for Performance? Medicare's New Reimbursement RuleNew England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 357, No. 16The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of MedicareThe Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 122, No. 1How agenda-setting attributes shape politics: Basic dilemmas, problem attention and health politics developments in Denmark and the USJournal of European Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 7The role of government in health care: a societal issueThe American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 191, No. 2Re-Naming And Re-Gaming: Medicare's Doomed Attempt To Reform Reimbursement For Injectable DrugsLegislation that mistakes acronym reform for system reform is no reform at all.J.D. Kleinke5 December 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 23, No. Suppl1T HE P OLITICAL E CONOMY OF H EALTH INTHE U NITED S TATESAnnual Review of Political Science, Vol. 6, No. 1Confronting The Barriers To Chronic Care Management In MedicareA proposal to make some changes to Medicare's existing structure, while we await the results of a new round of demonstrations.Robert A. Berenson and Jane Horvath5 December 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 22, No. Suppl1Analytic dimensions of a prescription-medication benefit in medicareClinical Therapeutics, Vol. 22, No. 4MedicareNew England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 340, No. 4Reexamining The Delivery System As Part Of Medicare ReformExecutives from a large health care system that treats many elderly patients offer their view of what Medicare reform needs to accomplish.Nancy A. Whitelaw and Gail L. Warden12 June 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 1CLINICOECONOMICS IN GEROPSYCHIATRYPsychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 20, No. 1