Question

Evaluate ways to sustain the viability of Medicare. Examples can include:

• Decrease entitlement benefits
• Consumer cost-sharing alternatives
• Provider based cost containment alternatives
• Decreasing provider reimbursement
• Care coordination - Pay For Performance / Patient Centered Medical Homes / Accountable Care Organizations

Answer 1

Health care expenditure has been steadily rising in all the countries to solve this problem and make a effective and cost effective health care for all the people Govt. agencies working for it.

this can be achieve by following interventions/methods.

• deciding which health care interventions will be publicly funded;
• changing the way health care providers are paid;
• imposing costs on individuals;
• constraining the capacity of the health system; and
• encouraging competition.