WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT OR PROUDEST MOMENT?

Impact of Medicare on Its Recipients

Medicare has been in existence since 1965, and during the intervening years, its original design has been greatly modified. The recipients of Medicare may have stayed basically the same, but the delivery, types of services, control, and regulations have changed significantly and continue to change.

For your Dropbox Assignment, choose two articles related to Medicare from the list below utilizing the resources from the South University Online Library journal databases (for example, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and the Internet).

• Kaiser Family Foundation. (2011). Restructuring Medicare’s beneficiarydesign: Implications for beneficiaries and spending. Retrieved from

  http://www.kff.org/medicare/upload/8256.pdf

• Kaiser Family Foundation. (2012). Medicare’s role for dual-eligiblebeneficiaries. Retrieved from http://www.kff.org/medicare/

  upload/8138-02.pdf

• Guterman, S., Davis, K., Schoenbaum, S., & Shih, A. (2009). UsingMedicare payment policy to transform the health system: A

  framework for improving performance. Health Affairs, 28, 238–250.

• Marmor, T. (2007). Medicare’s politics. Journal of Health Politics, Policyand Law, 32(2), 307–315.
• Oberlander, J. (2007). Through the looking glass: The politics of The MedicarePrescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. Journal of

  Health Politics, Policy and Law, 32(2), 187–219.

• Zarabozo, C., & Harrison, S. (2009). Payment policy and the growth ofMedicare advantage. Health Affairs, 28(1), 55–67.