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With charges and countercharges about impending Medicare reforms at a feverish pitch, the substantive issues in the debate have become increasingly obscured. This highly charged climate has left most Americans confused about the consequences of the proposed changes and needlessly fearful about the future of a program that, by most measures, has been immensely popular with older adults and their families.

With Medicare's trust fund facing insolvency by the year 2002 and pressure on the federal budget from the costs of Medicare Part B, which covers physicians' and outpatient services and is primarily funded directly from general revenue, the Republican . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Meeting a Need, but Out of Control

Cost-Cutting Lessons from the Private Sector

Structure and Strategies for a Reformed Medicare Program

Four Key Issues

The Politics of Reform

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