Quality Health Care: New Challenges as Medicare Evolves
February 1999
National Coalition on Health Care
Lewin contact: John Sheils
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) should promote "best practice" methods and educate providers. This study outlines ways in which the government can improve the quality of health care in Medicare programs. The cause for concern is due to the large gaps between the care that people should receive and the care they do receive. Medicare reforms must affect the whole system, and should not be tacked on as an afterthought.