The registry of beneficiaries, one of the registration files, contains details of demographics, residence, kinship relationships, occupation categories, insurance status and insurance amount of all beneficiaries of NHI.
The index shows both the breadth of coverage (the percentage of potential beneficiaries actually covered) and the depth (the amount of spending per beneficiary, expressed as a percentage of the country's GDP per person).In this section Where it counts The wild brunch Happy and you know it?
For future generations, the Romney-Ryan ticket would turn Medicare into a premium-support — or voucher — program in which the federal government provides a fixed amount of money to beneficiaries each year and allows it to grow by a small amount annually, which may not keep pace with medical costs.
Mr. Breaux had proposed that the government, instead of paying separately for each medical service, offer a fixed amount of money to each beneficiary.
Many Republicans want to overhaul Medicare by offering a fixed amount of money to each beneficiary to purchase a public or private health plan.
The government, he said, should contribute a fixed amount of money for each beneficiary, whether the person is in a private plan or in the original fee-for-service program.
Members of both parties told the panel that Medicare should offer a fixed amount of money to each beneficiary to buy coverage from competing private plans, whose costs and benefits would be tightly regulated by the government.
To rein in Medicare costs, Mr. Ryan proposes to increase the age of eligibility, cap the growth in costs and have the government give a fixed amount of money to each beneficiary to help buy private insurance.
Stan Rosenstein, the Medicaid director in California, said the payments were justified because "interns and residents provide a tremendous amount of care to Medicaid beneficiaries".
One possible explanation for these as yet unexplained discrepancies is that the amount of money that CCT beneficiaries receive is not in itself sufficient to satisfy a household's needs and therefore its electoral impact is ultimately negligible.
The annual deductible for Part B of Medicare, the amount that beneficiaries pay for services before Medicare starts to pay, will be $140 next year, down $22 from this year.
