National health insurance: lessons from the United States experiment.
Medicare's coverage of end-stage renal disease provides a 20-year experiment in national health insurance. Access, cost containment, and portability have been maintained while serious concerns have arisen over sustaining (and appraising) quality of care.
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Department of Economics, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004465:Economic Competition; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000191:economics* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D009310:National Health Insurance, United States / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000191:economics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States