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Improving the match between patients’ needs & end-of-life care by increasing patient choice in medicare

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Taylor, DH
Published in: Behavioral Science and Policy
January 1, 2018

One way to achieve health equity—ensuring everyone has fair and just opportunities to be as healthy as possible—in the United States would be to reallocate Medicare spending from low-value medical care (expensive treatments that do little good) toward high-value medical and social care (respectively, medical interventions that have been shown to work well but are not covered by Medicare and nonmedical interventions, such as help with activities of daily living, that patients find more helpful than low-value care). In the current policy milieu, the most practical, direct step in that direction may be for Medicare—an already established, universal health care program for the elderly—to provide patients with more choices and autonomy.

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Behavioral Science and Policy

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2379-4615

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2379-4607

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January 1, 2018

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4

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1

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51 / 61
 

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Taylor, D. H. (2018). Improving the match between patients’ needs & end-of-life care by increasing patient choice in medicare. Behavioral Science and Policy, 4(1), 51–61. https://doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2018.0004
Taylor, D. H. “Improving the match between patients’ needs & end-of-life care by increasing patient choice in medicare.” Behavioral Science and Policy 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 51–61. https://doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2018.0004.
Taylor, D. H. “Improving the match between patients’ needs & end-of-life care by increasing patient choice in medicare.” Behavioral Science and Policy, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 51–61. Scopus, doi:10.1353/bsp.2018.0004.

Published In

Behavioral Science and Policy

DOI

EISSN

2379-4615

ISSN

2379-4607

Publication Date

January 1, 2018

Volume

4

Issue

1

Start / End Page

51 / 61