Tuesday, March 13, 2012

From NEJM: Directions for bipartisan medicare reform

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22397632


N Engl J Med. 2012 Mar 7. [Epub ahead of print]

Directions for Bipartisan Medicare Reform.

Source

From Project HOPE, Bethesda, MD.

Abstract

Before Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced their "Bipartisan Options for the Future" on December 15, 2011, the notion that Democrats and Republicans agreed about certain aspects of Medicare might have seemed unthinkable.(1) But the pairing of a liberal Democrat who has long worked on health care reforms and a fiscally conservative Republican primarily known for work on budget issues suggests that it might be possible for the parties to reach a compromise on Medicare reform. Of course, meaningful reform is not likely to occur in 2012: any significant reformprobably won't happen until the public....

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