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Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care (California Milbank Books on Health and the Public) by Christine K Cassel; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 care 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. Writing in accessible language, using case studies to illustrate how policies translate to everyday lives, and applying lessons from the practice of geriatric medicine, Cassel makes a powerful argument for reforming and modernizing Medicare. She offers a new vision of what healthy aging could be and delineates what is needed to reach this vision, including changes in the medical sector, in the policy arena, and in our cultural beliefs about aging. Cassel sheds light on a wide range of issues pertaining to Medicare, including debates about coverage and the looming deficit in the Medicare Trust Fund. Perhaps the most controversial issue she addresses is the challenge of rationing some kinds of care. Anchoring her discussion of Medicare i
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- Author
- Christine K Cassel; NetLibrary, Inc
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781423717355
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Social Science, Nursing
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