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Contents:
Introduction -- The private health insurance market -- The tax treatment of health insurance -- Changing the availability of health insurance through existing federal programs -- The quality and efficiency of health care -- Geographic variation in spending for medicare -- Paying for medicare services -- Financing and paying for services in medicaid and the state children's health insurance program -- Premiums and cost sharing in federal health programs -- Long-term care -- Health behavior and health promotion -- Closing the gap between medicare's spending and receipts.
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