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The West Oak Lane Norc Initiative: An Innovative Aging -Support Program, Sara R. Popkin Msw, Lsw
The West Oak Lane Norc Initiative: An Innovative Aging -Support Program, Sara R. Popkin Msw, Lsw
Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)
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Entitlements: Not Just A Health Care Problem, Andrew G. Biggs
Entitlements: Not Just A Health Care Problem, Andrew G. Biggs
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “A new consensus on entitlement reform has developed in Washington: rising per-capita health care spending is the only real crisis besetting the government‘s entitlement programs, while America‘s aging population and Social Security play minor roles at best. Some cite this view to shift the policy emphasis from entitlement cost control to the restructuring of the U.S. health sector, including private health care. But this new consensus is flawed. Using standard accounting practices and including all major government entitlement programs, population aging will play an equal role with health care cost growth over the next seventy-five years and a significantly …