
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>The Medicare Advantage Program in 2014</dc:title>
  <dc:title>ASPE issue brief</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>Medicare Part C</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Private Sector</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Outsourced Services</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare program in the 1980s based on the theory that private plans could provide coordinated, high-quality care, and enhanced benefits for beneficiaries at a cost below that of the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program. Under this scenario, beneficiaries would have a choice of plans from which they could obtain extra benefits for an extra premium.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>[Washington, D.C.] : Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, April 2014</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Office of Health Policy, issuing body.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Statistics</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>Illustrations</dc:format>
  <dc:format>1 online resource (1 PDF file (15 pages))</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-101647804-pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>101647804</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101647804</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:coverage>United States</dc:coverage>
  <dc:rights>The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0</dc:rights>
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