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Tables of Contents for Who Should Pay for Medicare
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
1 Introduction
1
10
2 Medicare Today: Key Features of the Current System
11
15
3 Medicare's Incentive and Distributional Effects
26
15
4 A Five-Part Conceptual Decomposition of Medicare
41
15
5 Medicare's Social Insurance and Risk Prevention Purposes
56
20
6 Medicare's Long-Term Fiscal Gap and Its Underlying Causes
76
16
7 Significance of Medicare's Long-Term Fiscal Gap
92
11
8 Paying for Medicare I: Benefits
103
11
9 Paying for Medicare II: Enrollee Contributions
114
18
10 Paying for Medicare III: Other Financing to Narrow the Fiscal Gap
132
13
11 Conclusions and Predictions
145
6
Notes
151
6
References
157
8
Index
165