Medicare Matters ：What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care ( California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public )

Publication subTitle ：What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care

Publication series ：California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public

Author： Cassel> Christine  

Publisher： University Of California Press‎

Publication year： 2005

E-ISBN: 9780520932340

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520246249

Subject： R1 Preventive Medicine , Health

Keyword： 预防医学、卫生学

Language： ENG

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Contents

Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank

Preface

Introduction

1. Medicare and the Social Contract

2. Longevity and Health

3. Ensuring Quality of Care for Elderly Patients

4. Care Management: The Key to Modern Geriatric Medicine

5. Palliative Care

6. Medicare Coverage: Gaps, Limits, and Anomalies

7. Why Sixty-five? The Case for Lowering the Age of Medicare Eligibility

8. Insurance: Concepts and Changes

9. Prescription Drugs: The Challenge Remains

10. Politics: Reforming Medicare Reform

11. Rationing Is Inevitable

12. The Social Contract

Glossary

Notes

Index

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