The Affordable Care Act and Medicare in Comparative Context

1. Introduction; Part I. The Medicare Program: 2. The Medicare program, 3. The Medicare policy-making process and judicial review; 4. Taming the growth in Medicare expenditures; 5. Improving the quality of health care services; 6. Curbing fraud and abuse in the Medicare program; Part II. The Affordable Care Act and the Medicare Program: 7. The Affordable Care Act; 8. Improving the quality and efficiency of health care; 9. Major initiative under Title III: value-based purchasing of health care services; 10. Pilot programs for payment and quality reform under Title III; 11. Title VI: improving transparency and program integrity; 12. Major initiative under Title VI: the patient center research outcomes institute; Part III. The Future of Medicare in a Global Context: Lessons in Pragmatism: 13. The impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Medicare program; 14. The historical foundations for public health coverage in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States; 15. The health care systems of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States; 16. The United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States compared; 17. Convergence on pragmatic health reform strategies for common problems; 18. Entrepreneurship in health care; Epilogue.