title: Retiree health care benefits: a new standard of care.
abstract: Solving the problem of continually rising retiree health care costs may ultimately require a new type of health care system. By monitoring individual behavior and intervening when necessary to modify potentially harmful behavior, we can reduce the present system's wasteful emphasis on hospitals and drugs.
authors.affiliation: Merck & Co., Inc., USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bender
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003710:Demography; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000592:standards*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012179:Retirement / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States