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1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. HOW MUCH IS MEDICARE COSTING YOU?; Chapter 1. Fifteen Medicare Facts That Will Astonish You; Chapter 2. They're Coming for Your Social Security; Chapter 3. Will Democrats and Republicans Really Fix Medicare for You?; Chapter 4. The Big Squeeze; Part II. WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES: THE BUSINESS OF MEDICARE; Chapter 5. When a Night in the Hospital Costs More Than a House; Chapter 6. Bill, Baby, Bill; Chapter 7. A Country without Red Lights; Part III. HOW WALL STREET DETERMINES THE CARE YOU GET; Chapter 8. Medicare's One Percent. |
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Chapter 9. When Wall Street Health Care Comes to Main StreetChapter 10. Wall Street and the Federal Government: Born Forty-Eight Seconds Apart; Part IV. THE ENTITLED AND THE ENTITLERS: TAKING A SLICE OF THE AMERICAN PIE; Chapter 11. Seven Habits of an Entitled Health Care Industry; Chapter 12. Hedge Funds: The Newest Beneficiaries of Medicare's Entitlement; Chapter 13. The Entitlers: The White House and Congress; Part V. SAVING MEDICARE; Chapter 14. Free Market or Market Failure?; Chapter 15. Public Interest, Not Private Gain. |
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Chapter 16. Recycle Medicare Waste: Five Steps to Save Lots of MoneyNotes; Index; About the Authors. |
| Summary |
Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh weave two hotly-debated issues in American political and economic life: the Medicare program and its future, which is up for grabs, and the growing influence of the healthcare industry, Wall Street investment firms, private equity firms, and hedge funds that are cashing in on the business of Medicare. Medicare Meltdown reveals what the ties that bind Wall Street and Washington mean for Medicare's future and for boomers who will depend on it. |
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Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation.
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Medical policy -- United States -- Evaluation.
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Social medicine -- United States.
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Medicine -- United States.
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MEDICAL -- Administration.
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MEDICAL -- Practice Management & Reimbursement.
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Medical care -- Evaluation. (OCoLC)fst01013794
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Medical policy -- Evaluation. (OCoLC)fst01014516
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Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
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Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Singh, Janardan Prasad, 1960-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gibson, Rosemary. Medicare Meltdown : How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2013 9781442219793 |
| ISBN |
9781442219809 (electronic book) |
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