Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care Volume 14

by Christine K. Cassel

Book Overview

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-insurance program of our time. Christine K. Cassel draws upon the latest developments in science and medicine in a sweeping analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520251563
• ISBN13: 9780520251564
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"