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Medicare Plus: Increasing Health Coverage by Expanding Medicare
Published: October 31, 2003
The current policy debate around health care coverage expansion centers largely on either expanding public programs, such as Medicaid and SCHIP, or using the tax system to encourage more individuals to purchase health coverage in the private market. Jacob S. Hacker outlines a proposal that differs from these policy options. He would replace the current scattered patchwork of voluntary private coverage and residual public programs with an employer mandate and enrollment of much of the population in an expanded Medicare program called "Medicare Plus."
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Listed below are 2 of the grants that supported this project, totaling $2,840,023.
| Grant | Awarded to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Developing strategies to expand health insurance coverage |
Economic and Social Research Institute (Washington, DC) ID#: 040946 http://www.esresearch.org/ |
Actual award: $2,101,504 March 2001 to December 2003 This grant has ended. |
| Developing and assessing workable strategies to expand health insurance coverage |
Economic and Social Research Institute (Washington, DC) ID#: 037951 http://www.esresearch.org/ |
Actual award: $738,519 March 2000 to May 2001 This grant has ended. |
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Publication date:
March 25, 2009
Summary:
To help direct people to reform plans that may be most useful to their current work, we now categorize the plans developed under the Covering America Project.
Replacing the Current System
Publication date:
March 26, 2009
Summary:
Several of the reform plans would have largely or completely replaced the current system built on employer-based coverage and Medicare and Medicaid. Some of these plans can be categorized as single payer systems while others do not quite fit this description, but would...
Getting to a Single-Payer System Using Market Forces
By:
Halpin HA
Publication date:
October 31, 2003
Summary:
Incentives to encourage people to enroll in a public plan that would ultimately be a single payer. Employers offer coverage or pay 6.5 percent payroll tax. Subsidies to limit premiums to 2.5 percent of income.
A State-Based Proposal for Achieving Universal Coverage
Publication date:
October 31, 2003
Summary:
All nonelderly legal residents would be guaranteed comprehensive health insurance as a "right" (at no direct cost) through a public insurance approach designed by each state and monitored by the federal government.
The Medical Security System
By:
Weil AR
Publication date:
October 31, 2003
Summary:
A new Medical Security System would be created to provide universal coverage, making coverage a "right."
Medicare for All
By:
Morone JA
Publication date:
October 31, 2003
Summary:
"Single-payer" approach. All legal residents covered by Medicare, with expanded and rationalized benefits package and no copayments. Particular emphasis on community medicine. States could choose to opt out for residents under age 65 by designing their own system under...
A Word from Jacob Hacker
By:
Hacker JS
Publication date:
March 22, 2009
Summary:
Jacob Hacker is professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He authored a proposal for Covering America, "Medicare Plus: Increasing Health Coverage by Expanding Medicare."The Covering...
Covering America: Proposals At A Glance
Publication date:
March 26, 2009
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To help direct people to reform plans that may be most useful to their current work, these charts categorize and compare the 17 plans developed under the Covering America Project. Users can easily access author's full proposals by clicking on their names located at...
