The Future of US Health Care: Is Medicare Really Better at “Saving” Money?

Edlin Aaron, Dana Goldman and Adam Leive
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Edlin Aaron: Professor of Economics, Richard Jennings Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

The Economists' Voice, 2014, vol. 11, issue 1, 13-19

Abstract: Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, and others see Medicare as a panacea. Krugman, for example, points out that average Medicare costs have grown only 400 percent while private insurance costs have grown 700 percent. Should the US move to Medicare for all? The case is not as clear as such statistics suggest.

Keywords: health care costs; health reform; Medicare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1515/ev-2013-0013

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