Review the following and answer the following questions:
Managed Care Systems, Insurance, and Regulations
Medicare, Medicaid, and Military
Medicare – elderly and disabled primarily. 100% federal government/tax funded (Buchbinder, Shanks, & Buchbinder, 2014; Kongstvedt, 2013).
Task: Based on research from at least 3 authoritative outside sources, write a 3- to 5-page paper that does the following:
1) Distinguish which government program (Medicare, Medicaid - for Washington state, or Military/VA) is most/least effective and efficient within the context of:
o Cost
o Quality
o Access for stakeholder groups involved (e.g., patients, providers, administrators)
2) Include a table summary with plus/minus implications
3) Generate a persuasive position summary that ranks in order the programs and target markets that are most to least beneficial to the healthcare organizations specified.