| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 评论 |
| Dear Congress: Medicare Is Dying | |
| Joseph Antos; Kevin A. Hassett; Robert B. Helms; Thomas P. Miller; Andrew G. Biggs; and more | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-03-31 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Honorable John Boehner Honorable Harry Reid Speaker of the House Majority Leader U.S. House of Representatives United States Senate Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20510 Honorable Nancy Pelosi Honorable Mitch McConnell Minority Leader Minority Leader U.S. House of Representatives United States Senate Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20510 Dear Speaker Boehner, Leader Pelosi, Leader Reid, and Leader McConnell: Medicare is in serious financial trouble. Spending is growing faster than Medicare’s revenue, and there is no end in sight. This year, Medicare is expected to spend $568 billion. In ten years, spending will reach almost $1 trillion. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the hospital insurance trust fund will run out of money by 2020. Medicare is too important to allow it to fall into bankruptcy. The budget resolution that will soon be adopted by the House of Representatives is likely to include a call for Medicare reform. The key to that reform is premium support, which can restore fiscal health to the program by promoting more efficient and effective health care for America’s seniors. The premium support concept has long been recognized as a prudent approach to financing health and retirement programs. It is a new way of structuring the financing of Medicare benefits that gives beneficiaries more control over their health choices and spending. Medicare beneficiaries would be granted an annual subsidy that reflects the costs associated with their health status and their financial wherewithal. This premium support arrangement would reverse the incentives now in Medicare that promote wasteful spending. Premium support would benefit seniors and taxpayers. Medicare would remain a guaranteed benefit, but seniors would be free to choose a health plan that best meets their needs. Having more control over their health care spending would encourage consumers and patients to make better health care choices. It would stimulate more innovative and accountable competition by health care providers and give them incentives to better coordinate the care of their patients. Enhanced competition could offer seniors relief from rising Medicare premiums. Just as important, this reform could begin to ease the crushing tax burden imposed by the current program on our children and grandchildren. The concept of premium support has been endorsed by numerous experts and commissions–including a majority of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, chaired by Senator John Breaux and Representative Bill Thomas in 1999, and the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Task Force on Debt Reduction, chaired by Alice Rivlin of The Brookings Institution and former Senator Pete Domenici in 2010. We believe that policymakers should not wait any longer to address the growing fiscal crisis in this country. Responsible reform of Medicare is a major component of any plan to place the country back on a sustainable fiscal path. Sincerely, [Affiliations are listed for identification only, and do not imply endorsement by the individual’s institution.] Joseph R. Antos, Ph.D. Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy American Enterprise Institute Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Ph.D. President American Action Forum Grace-Marie Turner President Galen Institute Mark Pauly, Ph.D. Professor of Health Care Systems The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. Senior Fellow Pacific Research Institute June O’Neill, Ph.D. Wollman Distinguished Professor of Economics Baruch College, City University of New York Merrill Matthews, Ph.D. Resident Scholar Institute for Policy Innovation John S. Hoff Diana Furchtgott-Roth Director, Center for Employment Policy Hudson Institute Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D. Senior Fellow Project HOPE Michael A. Morrisey, Ph.D. Professor University of Alabama at Birmingham Andrew G. Biggs, Ph.D. Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute Stephen T. Parente, Ph.D. Minnesota Insurance Industry Professor of Health Finance Professor, Department of Finance Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota Paul J. Feldstein, Ph.D. Robert Gumbiner Professor The Paul Merage School of Business University of California James C. Capretta Fellow, Economics and Ethics Program Ethics and Public Policy Center Thomas Campbell Jackson Trustee Galen Institute Thomas R. Saving, Ph.D. Director and Jeff Montgomery Professor of Economics Private Enterprise Research Center Gregory Conko Senior Fellow Competitive Enterprise Institute Fred L. Smith, Jr. President Competitive Enterprise Institute David Gratzer, M.D. Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Roy Ramthun President HSA Consulting Services Scott W. Atlas, M.D. Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Professor and Chief, Neuroradiology Stanford University Medical Center Stanford University Robert B. Helms, Ph.D. Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute Thomas P. Miller Resident Fellow American Enterprise Institute Doug Badger Senior Fellow Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Kevin A. Hassett, Ph.D. Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies American Enterprise Institute Michael J. O’Grady, Ph.D. Senior Fellow NORC at the University of Chicago |
| 主题 | Health Care |
| 标签 | Harry Reid ; John Boehner ; Nancy Pelosi |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/dear-congress-medicare-is-dying/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/250424 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joseph Antos,Kevin A. Hassett,Robert B. Helms,et al. Dear Congress: Medicare Is Dying. 2011. |
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