290 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1997, this volume approaches the controversial issue of Medicare and its future. First passed in 1965 to aid payments for elderly and disabled medical care, the costs had ballooned in the 1990s, asking questions about how to improve its efficiency. An original goal of this book was to contextualise Medicare within the anticipated comprehensive restructuring of American... Read more
1. Placing Medicare in Context. 2. Assuring Access. 3. Containing Costs: Impacts on Providers. 4. Containing Costs: Impacts on Beneficiaries. 5. The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act. 6. Marginal Changes and the Future. 7. Reducing the Cost of Medicare. 8. Expanding Medicare. 9. How Should Medicare Change?
Biography
Marilyn Moon
