Who Should Pay for Medicare?

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Medicare Today: Key Features of the Current System
3. Medicare's Incentive and Distributional Effects
4. A Five-Part Conceptual Decomposition of Medicare
5. Medicare's Social Insurance and Risk Prevention Purposes
6. Medicare's Long-Term Fiscal Gap and Its Underlying Causes
7. Significance of Medicare's Long-Term Fiscal Gap
8. Paying for Medicare I: Benefits
9. Paying for Medicare II: Enrollee Contributions
10. Paying for Medicare III: Other Financing to Narrow the Fiscal Gap
11. Conclusions and Predictions
Notes
References
Index