TITLE

Longevity does not run up Medicare expenditures

PUB. DATE
June 1995
SOURCE
Brown University Long-Term Care Quality Letter;6/12/95, Vol. 7 Issue 11, p7
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on an article in `The New England Journal of Medicine' which reports on the impact of longevity on Medicare spending. Increase in births as a likely source of increased Medicare costs; Analysis of Medicare beneficiaries; Estimated lifetime Medicare payments.
ACCESSION #
9507126310

Tags: LONGEVITY -- Economic aspects;  MEDICARE;  COST

 

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