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6 Implementing Measures of Medical Care Economic Burden and Risk
Pages 101-106

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... This concluding chapter sustains that practical perspective by outlining how a new measure of medical care economic risk (MCER) , as well as a measure of burden, might be implemented.
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From page 102...
... issued a report in 1995 that proposed a revised measure of poverty and recommended that the federal government develop a separate measure of medical care risk that would measure the economic risk to families and individuals of lacking adequate health insurance coverage (National Research Council, 1995)
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From page 103...
... This effort should coincide with the production and release schedule for the Supplemental Poverty Measure. Recommendation 6-2: The panel further recommends the creation of a medical care economic risk coordinating group composed of senior officials from the U.S.
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... Recommendation 6-3: The panel recommends that funding for the current data collection efforts be maintained at a level to ensure that rigorous, accurate calculations of measures of medical care economic burden and risk can be made. As pointed out in Chapter 1, one substantial deficiency in the calculation of a measure of medical care economic risk is the lack of information available about people who enter institutional care, such as nursing homes.
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From page 105...
... Future improvements in the data available will also require reexamination of the MCER methodology. We think that both HHS and the Census Bureau, under the guidance of the interagency coordinating group, should make the appropriate investments to ensure that this research be done to improve the measurement of medical care economic risk and burden in the future.
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