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How Should Congress Reform Medicare? It’s As Simple As Déjà Vu PRI Briefing By: Chris Middleton 2.1.2003
Medicare, the government health-care program for the elderly and disabled, faces a financial crisis when the baby boom generation begins to retire. Moreover, reform has become necessary because the complex, defined benefit Medicare program is failing to deliver the basic features of good medical care.
These problems are so serious that the Medicare program cannot be fixed with mere tinkering. The job will require deep reforms, but there is a precedent for the course Congress should take.
