Reform proposals include widening entitlements to the entire active population or all tax payers.
Because managed care integrates the financing and delivery of healthcare services, it dramatically alters the roles and relationships among providers, payers, and patients.
Here, surely, is a significant amount of money that third-party payers could put to more effective use.
Many" can-but-won't payers" will pay their court orders, having made their self-indulgent gestures; others will suffer relatively painless deductions from salary cheques.
Who has to pay the reparations, the government or the individuals, knowing that eventually, the tax payers will bear the costs?
Given payers' concerns about the cost of orphan drugs, registries could also be used to track expenditure in a given jurisdiction.
Inflation payers (issuers) gain the benefit of a disaggregated inflation market without the risks and logistical difficulties associated with creating it themselves.
Physicians and payers may value diagnostic information from their own perspectives, and their desires may or may not be consistent with patients' desires.
