Lessons from the First Twenty Years of Medicare: Research Implications for Public and Private Sector Policy (Publications of the American Folklore Society)

In this comprehensive volume, leading experts on health policy consider a broad range of Medicare-related issues. They assess the effects of Medicare policy over the last twenty years, analyze the impact of changing economic and demographic conditions, and consider how best to implement successful reform of the troubled system.

Mark V. Pauly is the Bendheim Professor and Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, and Health Care at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. William L. Kissick was the George Seckel Pepper Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.