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Author Cassel, Christine K.

Title Medicare matters : what geriatric medicine can teach American health care / Christine K. Cassel.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York ; Milbank Memorial Fund, [2005]
©2005

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  368.4 C272    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
Series California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 14
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 14.
Bibliography 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.
Subject Medicare.
Geriatrics -- United States.
Medical policy -- United States.
Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
Medicare.
Geriatrics -- United States.
Health Policy -- United States.
Health Services for the Aged -- United States.
ISBN 0520246241 cloth alkaline paper
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