316 pages; excerpt from "Options Related to Health": "Most of the 16 options in this chapter would either decrease federal spending on health programs or increase revenues (or equivalently, reduce tax expenditures) as a result of changes in tax provisions related to health care.... [F]ive options address broad approaches to changing federal health care policy, all of which would offer lawmakers a variety of alternative ways to alter current law.... [1] Impose caps on federal spending for Medicaid, [2] Convert Medicare to a premium support system, [3] Change the cost-sharing rules for Medicare and restrict medigap insurance, [4] Bundle Medicare's payments to health care providers, and [5] Reduce tax preferences for employment-based health insurance."

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