Many of the considerations mentioned also apply to a projection of the benefits to be derived through the public expenditures. These benefits need to be related to the costs if we are to obtain a richer appreciation of the total financing implications and impact. Since benefits might well differ by residence ( depending on [...]
There are two major difficulties in the preparation of estimates of the financing and distributional impact of a national health insurance proposal. The discussion of these two difficulties, I believe, will help point up some of the considerations that we should be aware of. The first difficulty relates to the estimates that are required [...]
I hasten to note that I do not mean to suggest that financing considerations are ignored by those who have offered the alternative NHI plans that are the subject of this conference. The plans, after all, do differ, and to suggest that the difference is accidental is unfair. Even so, I rather suspect that [...]
All of us have, in the last few years, become more acutely aware than ever of the large sums that are being poured into the American health industry. For employees the costs of coverage have become critical elements in the bargaining process. But it is Medicare and more Particularly Medicaid and the different reactions to [...]
It should first be clear that in discussing the frustration of the public at large, we are not referring exclusively to difficulties encountered by the poor or the near-poor. It is probably fair to say that most, if not all, Americans share the difficulties ( or feel they do ) to a greater or lesser [...]
It is useful, at the outset, to note the possibility that the various papers presented at this conference will to some extent, duplicate each other. All of us, through the good offices of the individuals at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, have attempted to keep the amount of repetition to a minimum. [...]