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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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-163) and index. |
LCCN | 2003012964 |
ISBN | 0226750760 (cloth : alk. paper) |