title: Alternative Medicare financing sources.
abstract: Medicare is financed principally by taxes--some of which burden the general population and others the elderly beneficiaries. Proposals to adjust these revenue sources are evaluated for equity, efficiency, stability, and administrative costs. A package is offered to redistribute the tax burden among all groups; it may also be good health policy.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D004526:Efficiency; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000379:methods*; D006291:Health Policy; D007182:Income; D007350:Insurance, Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D007357:Insurance, Physician Services / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D013660:Taxes; D014481:United States