Quality Assurance

Survey: Medicare gets higher marks from enrollees than private insurance

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, November 4th, 2002

Elderly Medicare beneficiaries are 2.7 times more likely than enrollees in employer-sponsored plans are to rate their health insurance as excellent and one-third as likely to say they couldn't get health care because of cost, according to a survey published on the Health Affairs web site.

The findings of better satisfaction, access, and security experienced by Medicare beneficiaries mean that would-be Medicare reformers need to be cautious if they want to make the program more like the private sector, according to the Commonwealth Fund's survey.

"Medicare beneficiaries' more positive access experiences and ratings of their care indicate that their...

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Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2002-11-04)

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