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August 18, 2009

Medicare Select = Managed Competition?

Filed under: In the News — tgk1946 @ 1:04 pm

Background Note from Parl’y Library, Social Policy Section. What is Medicare Select?
What about

  • effect on costs of elective surgery, via case-mix type funding?
  • would consumers be able to migrate their own personal efficiiencies, eg, good records of self-managing hypertension, body mass or diabetes?
  • could consumers opt out of expensive chemotherapy and transfer the imputed costs elsewhere?

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