Transitioning to Medicare before age sixty-five

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Short, Pamela Farley ^a   Weaver, France Marie ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Swiss Health Observatory   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; DISABLED PERSONS; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, DISABILITY; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449146153     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.3.w175     Document Type: Article

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11. For more information, see the Health and Retirement Study home page, http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu.
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13. The HRS follows subjects who enter institutions, but the initial sample is limited to the noninstitutionalized population.
14. See the text of the committee reports quoted in Dale and Verdier, "Elimination of Medicare's Waiting Period."
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