How We Can Fund Medicare

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Thomas Saving, PhD "If consumers care about the cost of healthcare, innovations will be directed at making things less costly," says guest Dr. Thomas Saving, the director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University about how to fund healthcare. In this segment, Dr. Saving discusses with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg how Medicare can pay for itself. They discuss budget based capitation, limited healthcare provisions for retirees and overall reform in the way we pay for healthcare.