Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers (Bush School Series in the Economics of Public Policy) Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2000-02-01
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0226710130
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Medicare Reform pdf
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In 1965, landmark legislation established the national Medicare system as a means of insuring access to medical care for all elderly citizens. Today, rocketing medical costs combined with a rapidly aging population have thrown the Medicare system off balance, moving it perilously close to financial crisis. Medicare already accounts for 2.65 percent of gross domestic product, and by the year 2030 that share is expected to more than double. Further, the trust fund dedicated to Medicare hospitalization coverage is expected to be depleted by 2008. Clearly, Medicare as we know it cannot endure much longer without either imposing a massive tax burden or dissolving altogether under its own financial strain.

Medicare Reform—the first volume in a new series sponsored by the George Bush School of Government and Public Policy at Texas A&M University—tackles the current Medicare predicament head-on, delving into the fundamental issues surrounding the reorganization of the system: whethe Download Medicare Reform for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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