Borrowing Business Practices to Improve Medicare
From 1995 to 2001, George Washington University started the Health Insurance Reform Project (HIRP) to help policy-makers and others in the health care field understand changes and innovations occurring in the health care and insurance markets. HIRP developed a number of recommendations, such as:
- Medicare could benefit from adapting some private sector innovations in providing health care to consumers.
- Recent Medicare reform, which allows both a government-run model and a private-sector model, could serve as a model for broader health care reform.
Key Findings
Among the findings and recommendations were:
- Medicare could benefit from adapting some private sector innovations in providing health care to consumers.
- Recent Medicare reform, which allows both a government-run model and a private-sector model, could serve as a model for broader health care reform.
- HMO Medicare benefits should be subject to a minimal level of standardization in order to reduce beneficiary confusion when comparing plans.
- Flexible tax credits and other measures could help uninsured workers and their children receive health coverage.
- A national retirement policy that coordinates Medicare, Social Security and private pension reforms could make substantial progress in dealing with retirement problems in the baby-boom generation.
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