The medicare problem and its potential solution -- The current status and future of today's medicare -- Paying for projected medicare expenditures: taxing the young -- Paying for projected medicare expenditures: making the elderly pay -- Scoring medicare reform I: the medicare commission --...

"Identifies and analyzes the three leading approaches to Medicare reform: updated social insurance, premium support, and consumer-directed Medicare, rating each on its political viability as well as ability to promote access to health care, improve quality of care, and control costs. Describes...