This article reviews administrative law issues relevant to the roles of the courts, Congress, and the Health Care Financing Administration in governing Medicare. First, it reviews the dozen Supreme Court cases involving Medicare and a cross-section of lower court cases over the history of the...

We provide empirical evidence on the extent to which long-term care insurance affects the housing and living arrangements of the elderly by examining plausibly exogenous changes in the supply of long-term care insurance through the Medicare program that occurred in the late 1990s. Prior to 1997,...

The increasing number of older persons to be expected in the coming decades raises serious questions concerning the resources that will be demanded for provision of long-term care of the frail elderly. Clearly there is a need for increased resources. However, simplistic calculations based upon...

There is conflicting evidence on the importance of out-of-pocket medical expenditures as a risk to financial security, particularly at older ages. We revisit this question, focusing on health care spending near the end of life using data from the Health and Retirement Study for the years...

We examine the impact of the expansion of public prescription drug insurance coverage from Medicare Part D on the elderly and find evidence of substantial crowd-out. Using detailed data from the 2002-7 waves of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we estimate that the extension of Part D...