PSCI 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Microsoft Onenote, Theodore Roosevelt, Path Dependence
27 Jan 2017
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Tuesday, october 25, 2016 11:38 am: characteristics of the us system. Third party payers and fee for service payment: paying for inputs not outputs, paying to have procedures done, not paying for an outcome. Access: geography, rural areas have a hard time getting a doctor compared to urban areas, medical centers are concentrated in urban areas. In 2010, 50 million people lacked health insurance, 1/6 of the population. Medicaid: prescription drugs, did not adopt any way of funding it, comes from general revenues. Insurance for people that cannot afford private insurance: largely funded by federal government, implemented by states, certain minimum coverage of eligibility, states can choose to cover more https://onedrive. live. com/view. aspx?bsrc=share&bpub=sdx. skydrive&resid=15cdbb404d6f9171!45798&cid=15cdbb404d6f9171&app=onenote&authkey=!al 1/2. State children"s health insurance program (schip: focuses on children that fall in the gap for families that don"t qualify for medicaid but can"t afford family insurance plans, the patient protection and affordable care act. Incentives structured to try and bend the cost curve, slow the rate of increase.
