A patient receives a check up from Dr. Vinci at University of Chicago Medicine Primary Care Clinic in Chicago (REUTERS/Jim Young).
Testimony
Why Reform Medicare? The President's and Other Bipartisan Proposals to Reform Medicare
May 21, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin
While laying out a bipartisan plan for reforming health care, Alice Rivlin explains why enacting Medicare reform has the power to move the whole American health delivery system away from fee-for-service reimbursement, which rewards volume of services, toward new delivery structures, which reward quality and value.