Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) Reviews

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2007-03-29
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0520251563
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health-insurance program of our time. Christine K. Cassel draws upon the latest developments in science and medicine in a sweeping analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts. Writing in accessible language, using case studies to illustrate how policies translate to everyday lives, and applying lessons from the practice of geriatric medicine, Cassel makes a powerful argument for reforming and modernizing Medicare. She offers a new vision of what healthy aging could be and delineates what is needed to realize this vision, including changes in the medical sector, in the policy arena, and in our cultural beliefs about aging.
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