The Struggle for the Soul of Medicare

The classic political history is still R. Harris, A Sacred Trust (New York: New American Library, 1966).

Oberlander J. , The Political Life of Medicare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003): at 4–7 et. passim.

Id., at 1–4, 157ff.

See “Toplines: The Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health National Survey of the Public's Views on Medicare,” (Washington: The Kaiser Foundation, 2003), at <http://www.kff.org/Medicare/loader.ctm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.ctm&PageID=14304> (last visited June 30, 2004).

For an empirical examination of this view, see Wilensky H.L. , The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public Expenditures (Berkeley, University of California Press): xi–xvi. et passim.; for a more theoretical statement, see Dahrendorf R. , Life Chances. Approaches to Social and Political Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).

Marmor T.R. , The Politics of Medicare (Chicago: Aldine, 1973): 20–23.

Pear R. , “Frist Expects Congress to Try to Expand Health Coverage,” New York Times, February 7, 2004, 7:5.

2004 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplemental Insurance Trust Funds (Washington: March 23, 2004): 22–31.

See “The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2005–2014,” by Holtz-Eakin D. Director, Congressional Budget Office, before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, January 27, 2004, at <http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4988&sequence=0> (last visited June 30, 2004).

Moon M. and Storeygard M. , “Solvency or Affordability? Ways to Measure Medicare's Health,” prepared for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, March, 2002.

For example, see Woolhandler S. Campbell T. , and Himmelstein D.U. , “Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada,” New England Journal of Medicine 349 (2003): 768–775.

See Economic Report of the President (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2004): 194ff.

Rice T. , The Economics of Health Reconsidered, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Health Administration Press/Academy Health, 2003): 164–166.

Cooper B.S. and How S. , “Medicare's Future: Current Picture, Trends, and Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement & Modernization Act of 2003 – Selected Charts,” The Commonwealth Fund, Updated February 24, 2004, at <http://www.cmwf.org/programs/medfutur/medicarechtpk_debate_659-pdf> (last visited June 28, 2004): at 20, author's calculations.

Id., at 22.

Id., at 18.

Id., at 14.

National Academy of Social Insurance, Financing Medicare's Future: Final Report of the Study Panel on Medicare's Long Term Financing — Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term Project (Washington, DC: National Academy of Social Insurance, 2000): at 23 et passim.

Cooper B.S. and Vladeck B.C. , “Perspective: Bringing Competitive Pricing to Medicare,” Health Affairs 19, no. 5 (2000): 49–54.

See, for example, the issue of Health Affairs 10, no. 4 (1991) — the closest thing the health policy community has to its own L'Osservatore Romano, entitled, “Managed Care: Key to Health Insurance Reform?”.

Vobejda B. and Harris J.F. , “Democrats Pounce on GOP Medicare Comments,” Washington Post, October 27, 1995 at A4.

See Peterson M.A. , “Introduction: Politics, Misperception, or Apropos,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24 (October, 1999): 873–886; the introduction is to a special issue devoted to “The HMO Backlash.”

Aaron H.J. and Reischauer R.D. , “The Medicare Reform Debate: What Is the Next Step,” Health Affairs 14, no. 4 (1995): 8–30.

Oberlander , supra note 2, at 187.

P.L. 108–173, “The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003,” Section 801.