Who should pay for Medicare? /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2004]
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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