Potential effects of raising medicare's eligibility age

Health Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 156-164

  Waidmann, Timothy A ^a  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEDICARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COST SAVINGS; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEDICARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032020630     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.17.2.156     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. B. Gage et al., "Medicare Savings: Options and Opportunities" (Unpublished report prepared for the Commonwealth Fund and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, June 1997).
2. Unlike Medicare, however, Social Security has an early retirement age of sixty-two at which persons can claim reduced benefits. This age will not change when the normal retirement age increases.
3. While the MCBS does not indicate the reason for original entitlement, we assume that a person whose entitlement date is prior to the legal date of entitlement for aged beneficiaries was entitled because of ESRD or because of participation in the SSDI program.
4. U.S. Census Bureau, "Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050," Current Population Reports, P25-1130 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996).
5. This is roughly consistent with projections made by the Congressional Budget Office in 1997. See Congressional Budget Office, Long Term Budgetary Pressures and Policy Options (Washington: CBO, March 1997), 41-42.