Rising Out-of-pocket Health Care Costs for Olders Americans: How Far Can Consumers Stretch Their Resources? : a BriefingU.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 115 pages |
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adequate Administration affordable beneficiaries benefits bill budget burden caregivers Commission believes Commission recognizes Commission recommends Commission's consumers cost containment cost of health cover deductibles doctors EDELSTEIN elderly eligible ensure expenditures expenses families federal government financing FRANK PALLONE going health care costs health care coverage health care system health insurance hospital income increase individuals Jersey job-based Joseph Riordan legislation long-term care insurance Medicaid Medicare Medigap million national health need long-term nursing home stays Ocean County older Americans out-of-pocket expenses PAAD paid PALLONE patients payment payroll tax Pepper Commission percent physicians policies population poverty premiums prescription drugs private insurance problems protection public program rates reform revenues RIORDAN risk senior citizens severely disabled sickness funds social insurance Social Security SOURCE spending talk Thank tion Toms River trust fund Uncompensated uninsured universal coverage universal health universal health care VERGANO workers