If the Supreme Court strikes health law, that the 49 million Medicare beneficiaries lose a variety of benefits that have already begun to include:
Saving prescription. Beneficiaries get discounts of 50% on brand-name drugs when they are in the so-called donut hole, or coverage gap where beneficiaries have no insurance to help with the cost of their medicines. It stages law of the gap by 2020.
Preventive services. Program beneficiaries in the traditional government-run medical care receive preventive services such as mammograms and colonoscopies without a co-payment or deductible.
Wellness visits. Recorders can see the doctor once a year to assess their health status and risk of disease, and to develop personal prevention plan, with no co-payment or deductible.
On average, keeping the elderly and people with special needs through Medicare covered $ 604 in 2011 to medicines, and more than 26 million saw their doctors for wellness visits or got preventive services. If the Court took down the individual mandate of only to the law, which requires most people to buy insurance, and almost all of the health care changes and Health Act will remain unchanged.
Extend the law also on the life of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Part A) for the year 2024. Otherwise, it is expected to become insolvent earlier in the Trust Fund, in 2017, which could put pressure on lawmakers in Washington to be tough on welfare when medical negotiate a deficit control agreement after the election.
Delayed Insolvency Fund Law and paid for new benefits by reducing federal spending in other areas of medical care, and increase the cost of coverage for beneficiaries with high incomes and add what you say and efficiency of this system the Obama administration. After the give and take, and medical care get about $ 428000000000 less from the federal government between 2010 and 2019. Federal spending on medical care is still rising, but less rapidly.
Republicans say that these cuts hurt seniors by transferring money from Medicare to help expand insurance coverage to the population under the age of 65 years.
And there came one of the largest savings from lower payments to hospitals and other medical providers. If the law disappeared, higher payments will be restored, but the likely medical providers also that patients who have more uninsured.
Law cut payments to health care Advantage plans - mostly managed HMOs and PPOs care - which covers about a quarter of the beneficiaries. The Medicare spends more beneficiaries in these private plans than it was for those in the traditional program, the idea was to equalize those payments.
In the long term, creating a health law Independent Payment Advisory Board to propose spending cuts if medical care is growing too quickly.
If you go Health Act, so the funding and licensing a small number of clinical trials aimed at reducing health care costs by improving the organization and improve the quality of care. The law includes a pilot project to bundle payments to providers of medical services so that one check will cover an episode of care, such as hip replacement. Other programs are set to test the purchasing value-based providers of medical services and care institutions accountable.
The health care experts are hoping that these experiences that both save money in medical care and encourage similar steps in the system to provide private health care.
There is a lot at stake for the future of medical aid, as the court considers a challenge to expand the program. Some states, though, vowed to press ahead regardless of the decision.
In other news on the fight against corruption and the medical staff:
Court challenge can lead to medical assistance to reduce rather than expansion
The largest health insurance program in the country - Medicaid - hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court decision on the Health Act 2010. The federal program of the state - which covers 60 million poor and disabled - will expand dramatically under the Health Act, pointing out that 17 million people starting in 2014 Kaiser Health News
The ruling could lead to medical discounts, barriers
The Supreme Court ruling widely States can allow to reduce rolls medical assistance to them, despite the fact that many experts do not expect a mad rush to boot people from this program. It began to rise several countries experiencing financial hardship to abolish the existence of "an effort to maintain the" Al-Qaeda in the health care law, which prevent them from tightening eligibility requirements for the moment to pass the law. But, as experts, and most likely to say that states take a more precise approach to reducing participation, and it will not have a significant impact overnight. Politico Pro
Three countries: the rule will not stop medical aid changes
Even if the Supreme Court canceled the expansion of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid plans, some officials state to move forward on reform. Without medical expansion, there will be people who will not 16000000-20000000 added to the Medicaid rolls starting in 2014 - will be the billions in federal funding to expand the coverage will not be there. But some state Medicaid officials said they are already working toward changes that can move forward, regardless of whatever the Supreme Court decided. Politico Pro
Court health care ruling could cripple medical care
Significant improvements in medical care disappear if the Supreme Court decided to expel the entire law. The decision could cripple the health care system because the act of paints benefits, reimbursement rates and delivery systems. Some changes have already been implemented, and others are works in progress. Reuters
Medicare beneficiaries in the decision of the Supreme Court
On average, keeping the elderly and people with special needs through Medicare covered $ 604 in 2011 to medicines, and more than 26 million saw their doctors for wellness visits or got preventive services. If the Court took down the individual mandate of only to the law, which requires most people to buy insurance, and almost all of the health care changes and Health Act will remain unchanged. Kaiser Health News
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care policy, non-partisan research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser.
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