Health financing without deficits : reform that sidesteps political gridlock / Philip J. Romero and Randy S. Miller.
Romero, Philip J., author.; Miller, Randy S., author.
2016
RA395.A3 R654 2016
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Title Health financing without deficits : reform that sidesteps political gridlock / Philip J. Romero and Randy S. Miller.
Author Romero, Philip J., author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781631575464 paperback
9781631575471 (electronic bk.)
Published New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 123 pages)
Call Number RA395.A3 R654 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.10973
Summary America's health system has been a polarizing issue in most presidential campaigns in our lifetimes. It is hardly surprising that an industry that consumes nearly one in every five dollars spent in the U.S. economy has loomed over our politics. Its only competition in the last few decades was the nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It will be prominent again in 2016 and beyond. This book will guide you through the fusillade of charges, and promises, you will hear in political campaigns about health care and "reform." They will occur now that the fiscal calamity of Boomer retirement is no longer a threat: it is here. For all the attention Social Security receives, Medicare is the truly scary entitlement program, with unfunded liabilities many times larger. This book also offers a powerful tool of reform. The Health Insurance Revenue Bond (HIRB) is a new and completely self-liquidating financing approach that fully funds escalating liabilities such as health care-- without deficits. If you can't bend the curve on health costs, bend the curve on the cost of funding. The HIRB program can assist governments in developed nations to begin the long and painful process of deleveraging.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118) and index.
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Source of Description Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2016).
Added Author Miller, Randy S., author.
Series Economics collection. 2163-7628
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Part I. The economy's vampire: health care
1. Health care, deficits, and the economy
2. The absent free market
3. The economy's vampire
Part II. Three generations of reform proposals
4. The new deal and its progenitors
5. World War II, tax deductibility, and the Fair Deal
6. Medicare and Medicaid
7. Hillarycare and its progeny
Part III. What is wrong with Democratic and Republican plans
8. 2016 plans
Part IV. The key problems in American health policy
9. Problem I, unlimited demand due to third party payment
10. Problem II, high costs = poor access
11. Problem III, the health cartel
12. Obamacare
13. The shadow of 2018
Part V. A nonpartisan health financing alternative: HIRB
14. Bending the curve on funding health-care cost
15. Financing basics
16. HIRB and public policy
17. Why HIRB works
18. HIRB's robustness over a range of interest rates
19. A health insurance requisite
20. Summation
21. HIRB's versatility
Part VI. Conclusion
22. What Democrats get wrong about health reform
23. What Republicans get wrong about health reform
24. The path to a sustainable health system
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
For more about HIRB
Index.

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