Medicare financing and affordability

Marilyn Moon

Chapter 9 in Fiscal Accountability and Population Aging, 2021, pp 183-197 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines objective measures to assess the burdens of financing health care for the Medicare population and suggests how to put the issues in an appropriate context for discussing the affordability of Medicare. It questions the magnitude of burdens on future taxpayers, how much beneficiaries can pay toward the costs of their own care and whether shifting costs from taxpayers more to beneficiaries could merely make the program unaffordable to a different group

Keywords: Asian Studies; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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