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Health Care for an Aging Population
Contributor(s): Hackler, Chris (Editor)
ISBN: 0791419991     ISBN-13: 9780791419991
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE:   $90.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 1994
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Education
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 362.109
LCCN: 93037845
Physical Information: 232 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This volume examines one of the most important policy issues to be faced as policymakers address both current and future health care needs--the allocation of health care resources for an aging population. The first part looks at the role of the aged in society, what justice requires of the young toward the old and of the old toward the young, the source of rising health care costs, and the need to control medical spending.

The second part focuses on dramatic and controversial proposals by Daniel Callahan and others to control medical spending in the next century by rationing life-prolonging treatment according to age. Concluding chapters provide concrete proposals for a system that solves our immediate problems of cost and access while preparing for the extraordinary needs of an aging population.

This book explores proposed changes in the U.S. health-care system to meet unprecedented demand expected early in the next century when the "baby boom" generation reaches retirement age and eligibility for Medicare. A focal point is the possibility of withholding publicly-funded, life-prolonging medical care from the very old.