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A 7 page paper critiquing the report of a study conducted to determine the degree to which current retirees have access to employer-paid healthcare benefits. One of the most persistent and troublesome issue facing policymakers and legislators today is that of managing Medicare and ensuring that the nation’s elderly population has sufficient access to healthcare. The Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) has made changes in facility reimbursement procedures intended to make Medicare function more efficient, but of course the realized effect has been to further complicate the entire process without providing any real benefit to those needing healthcare services. The paper finds the study to be well-designed and well-executed, and makes recommendations for future research. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSfinHlthCareRev.rtf
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One of the most persistent and troublesome issue facing policymakers and legislators today is that of managing Medicare and ensuring that the nations
elderly population has sufficient access to healthcare. The Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) has made changes in facility reimbursement procedures intended to make Medicare function more efficient, but of
course the realized effect has been to further complicate the entire process without providing any real benefit to those needing healthcare services. The purpose here is to review the
account of research centered on discovering the attributes of retiree healthcare benefits and how many of the nations retirees might be covered under such plans. Need for the Study
Policymakers finally have come to realize that many of the nations retirees have some form of employer-provided health insurance available as part of their
retirement packages. As the face of business changed so dramatically in the past several years, however, many of those former employers are being pressured to reduce their costs of
benefits not only to retired workers, but to currently employed ones as well. Some even have phased out any employer contribution to employee healthcare insurance costs, but maintain group
policies so that employees costs will not be so oppressive. In "Retiree Health Insurance: Recent Trends and Tomorrows Prospects," McCormack, Gabel, Berkmnan, Whitmore,
Hutchison, Anderson, Pickreign and West (2002) discuss the consequences of congressional action not backed by true, accurate knowledge of conditions as they exist. The authors use as example the
Medicare Catastrophic Act of 1988. Unaware of retirees positions both for catastrophic care and prescription drug coverage, Congress proceeded with a bill not underwritten with sufficient information. "Congress
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