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handle is hein.amenin/aeiabxm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Regulating Doctors' Fees Competition, Benefits, and Controls under Medicare Edited by H. E. Frech III What constitutes fair compensation to physicians under Medi- care? Medicare now pays physicians 80 percent of a predeter- mined charge for a particular service, and the consumer pays the rest, but radical changes have been proposed. Alarmed at the rising costs of Medicare, Congress is seeking ways to control these expenditures. Contributors to this book evaluate the deeply flawed but politically popular proposal that would, in effect, impose price controls on many medical procedures. Leading experts on physician markets and health insurance consider the competition in the market for physicians' services, the value of surgeons' time in comparison with the time of primary care physicians, the conflicting ideologies regarding access to medical care, the taxation or prohibition of Medigap insurance, and the relationship of doctors' fees to access to care. From the introduction by H. E. Frech III: Many are ideologically opposed to putting 'financial barriers' in the way of obtaining medical care. In this view, all medical care should be available with no out-of-pocket payments by consumers. The concept that medical care has a quasi-religious or metaphysical nature underlies the conviction that consumers and society should not have to economize on it. In reality, medical care is a service, produced with capital, labor, and other material. THE AEI PRESS Publisher for the American Enterprise Institute ISBN 978--8447-3742-3 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W 9000 Washington, D.C. 20036 91780844-737423

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