Medicare Matters : : What Geriatric Medicine can Teach American Health Care
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Medicare and the social contract -- Longevity and health -- Ensuring quality of care for elderly patients -- Care management: the key to modern geriatric medicine -- Palliative care -- Medicare coverage: gaps, limits, and anomalies -- Why sixty-five? the case for lowering the age of Medicare eligibility -- Insurance: concepts and changes -- Prescription drugs: the challenge remains -- Politics: reforming Medicare reform -- Rationing is inevitable -- The social contract.
Annotation A critical assessment of the Medicare program and what it will take to make the program work successfully for our aging population, by a physician who is one of the nation's leaders in geriatric medicine.
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PUBLISHED
Milbank Memorial Fund, University of California Press ; c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: xiii, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0520246241 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520246249 (cloth : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Medicare.
Geriatrics.
Medical policy.
Older people -- Medical care.