Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities

by Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew

Book Overview

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Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. Some argue the program is too comprehensive, others that it is not comprehensive enough. Some suggest it pays too much for health care, others, too little. Meanwhile, the financial stakes continue to mount. Medicare spending exceeded $400 billion in 2007, making it more expensive than the entire health systems of most other nations, as well as the largest national public program...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815701241
• ISBN13: 9780815701248
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"