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The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

The bills in both houses would start pilot projects within Medicare.

The Senate bill would create an independent commission to monitor the pilot programs and recommend changes in Medicare's payment policies to urge providers to adopt reforms that work.

The House bill would authorize the secretary of health and human services to negotiate drug prices in Medicare and Medicaid.

Congress needs to find the courage to allow Medicare to pay preferentially for treatments proven to be superior.

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.

As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.

Should doctors consider Medicare's budget in deciding what to use?I think ethically（在道德层面上） we are just worried about the patient in front of us and not trying to save money for the insurance industry or society as a whole, said Dr.Donald Jensen.Still

Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to o

Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare.