{"title":"Medicare financing reform: a new Medicare premium.","authors":"K. Davis, D. Rowland","doi":"10.2307/3349830","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The original and continuing promise of Medicare can be preserved only through a complex package of fiscal reforms. Central to this should be a merger of Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance into a single Medicare trust fund, financed in part through income-related beneficiary premiums. Benefits could be expanded, while improving access and equity.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"14 1","pages":"300-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1984-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349830","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The original and continuing promise of Medicare can be preserved only through a complex package of fiscal reforms. Central to this should be a merger of Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance into a single Medicare trust fund, financed in part through income-related beneficiary premiums. Benefits could be expanded, while improving access and equity.