Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index.
Contents
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.