Who should pay for Medicare? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaviro, Daniel N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Table of 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