title: Can Medicare survive its saviors?
abstract: It is now an open question whether Medicare will provide adequate health coverage to the baby-boom generation as it begins turning 65 just over a decade from now. The source of uncertainty is not whether America has the resources to sustain the program; we do. The real challenge comes instead from proposals to save Medicare. Far from preserving its benefits, the major restructuring proposals under discussion would radically alter the principles on which Medicare rests and erode the protection it affords.
authors.affiliation: Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feder
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moon
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003256:Community Participation; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007183:Income Tax; D015273:Insurance Selection Bias; D007348:Insurance, Health; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States