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100	1		_aFuchs, Victor R.
245	1	0	_a"Though Much is Taken" -- Reflections on Aging, Health, and Medical Care / _cVictor R. Fuchs.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c1984.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w1269
500			_a1984.
520	3		_aThe Medicare trust funds face huge prospective deficits by the end of this decade.This paper discusses trends in six areas that bear on the Medicare problem: the number of the elderly, their health status, use of medical care, labor force participation, income, and living arrangements. Among the most important findings are: 1) a very large increase since 1965 in life expectancy at age 65; 2) a very large increase since 1976 in real per capita health care expenditures on the elderly relative to expenditures on persons under age 65; 3) a cross-sectional increase with age in per capita health care expenditures that is primarily attributable to very large expenditures in the last year of life; 4) a sharp decrease in labor force participation and a sharp increase in relative income of the elderly since 1965.The paper concludes by raising questions about the need to reconsider the definition of the elderly, the need for more flexible labor market arrangements for older workers, and a need for a social consensus concerning appropriate care of dying patients.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aH - Public Economics _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w1269.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w1269
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w1269
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