附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
摘要: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 care program of our time.