Healthcare reform critical issue: Expand Medicaid and Medicare programs
Posted Jul 10 2009 10:47pm
The final in our five-part series from our blogging team of retired hospital CEOs which asked, “ What do you view as the most challenging issue facing healthcare reform? ” outlines the urge to expand the Medicaid and Medicare programs in healthcare reform.
Michael Stephens, retired president and CEO of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, CA, provides his thoughts on how we ought to expand Medicaid and Medicare to include coverage for additional groups to achieve integrated health system payment levels within those segments, thereby advancing the consolidation of providers and integration.
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“I would like to encourage the President to expand the coverage of Medicaid to include higher income levels, or poverty levels, and to expand the availability of coverage of the Medicare program to those that are under 65 and that private plans remain for those within those income or age categories and that a play-or-pay mandate be encouraged for employers.”
The final in our five-part series from our blogging team of retired hospital CEOs which asked, “ What do you view as the most challenging issue facing healthcare reform? ” outlines the urge to expand the Medicaid and Medicare programs in healthcare reform.
Michael Stephens, retired president and CEO of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, CA, provides his thoughts on how we ought to expand Medicaid and Medicare to include coverage for additional groups to achieve integrated health system payment levels within those segments, thereby advancing the consolidation of providers and integration.
Sign up on our Action for Better Healthcare YouTube channel to keep connected as videos are uploaded and be sure to comment on the opinions presented in each of these one- to two-minute postings.
Tell us: What is the one critical aspect you see in healthcare reform?
“I would like to encourage the President to expand the coverage of Medicaid to include higher income levels, or poverty levels, and to expand the availability of coverage of the Medicare program to those that are under 65 and that private plans remain for those within those income or age categories and that a play-or-pay mandate be encouraged for employers.”
– Mike Stephens