Economics

U.S. Economic Performance

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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.

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