Medicare and the Affordable Care Act

The recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act made modest changes to improve Medicare and obtained a substantial share of funding for the Act's broader reforms from future spending reductions in the program. Drug benefits and preventive services were improved. While painful, t...

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Published inJournal of aging & social policy Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 233 - 247
Main Author Moon, Marilyn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Taylor & Francis Group 01.04.2012
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
Benefits
Cost
Cost Sharing
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Drugs
Expenditures
Health care expenditures
Health Care Reform
Health Care Services
Health Expenditures
Health policy
health reform
Health services
Health technology assessment
Humans
Legislation
Medical service
Medicare
Medicare - economics
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Patients
Payment
Payments
prescription drugs
Prescription Drugs - economics
preventive care
Preventive Health Services - economics
Preventive medicine
Private Sector - economics
Productivity
Protection
Reform
Social Programs
United States
United States
United States > US
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Summary:The recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act made modest changes to improve Medicare and obtained a substantial share of funding for the Act's broader reforms from future spending reductions in the program. Drug benefits and preventive services were improved. While painful, the spending reductions will have only moderate impacts on beneficiaries and should help achieve the goals of health care reform: encouraging better primary and preventive care, making providers conscious of finding ways to increase the productivity of care delivered and changing the relative levels of payment across certain providers. Additional costs to beneficiaries will arise from changes in private plan payments and increasing income-related premiums.
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ISSN:0895-9420
1545-0821
DOI:10.1080/08959420.2012.659111