Congressmen Martin Sabo and Jim Ramstad address Medicare 40 Anniversary Congressional Forum - August 2005

Medicare is facing a significant financial crisis that is compounded by a funding system tat rewards the intensity of health care and not the quality of health care. Learn how the current Medicare funding program hurts consumers, providers and payers in the upper Midwest who have a tradition of providing relatively cost effective quality health care. 

• Background on Equity Issues – The Medicare Reimbursement Crisis
   
• Minnesotan’s pay as much as 300% more for health care then elsewhere in the Country
   
• Too much Medicare funding leads to more intense, not better care
   
• Five reasons why Medicare has an unjust funding system