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Who should pay for Medicare? / Daniel Shaviro.

Author/creator Shaviro, Daniel N.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Descriptionxii, 169 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Medicare--Economic aspects.
Medicare--Finance.
Medical care, Cost of--United States.
Health care reform--United States.
Contents Medicare today: key features of the current system -- Medicare's incentive and distributional effects -- A five-part conceptual decomposition of Medicare -- Medicare's social insurance and risk prevention purposes -- Medicare's long-term fiscal gap and its underlying causes -- Significance of Medicare's long-term fiscal gap -- Paying for Medicare I: benefits -- Paying for Medicare II: enrollee contributions -- Paying for Medicare III: other financing to narrow the fiscal gap -- Conclusions and predictions.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-163) and index.
LCCN 2003012964
ISBN0226750760 (cloth : alk. paper)

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