4. The Efficiency of Medicare

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts 13
6. 2. Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults 59
7. 3. Characterizing the Experiences of High-Cost Users in Medicare 79
8. 4. The Efficiency of Medicare 129
9. 5. Intensive Medical Technology and the Reduction in Disability 161
10. 6. Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines 185
11. 7. Consequences and Predictors of New Health Events 213
12. 8. Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live: Trajectories of Health, Wealth, and Living Arrangements among the Oldest Old 241
13. 9. Institutions and Saving for Retirement: Comparing the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands 281
14. 10. Household Saving in Germany: Results of the First SAVE Study 317
15. 11. Caste, Culture, and the Status and Well-Being of Widows in India 357
16. 12. Individual Subjective Survival Curves 377
17. Contributors 413
18. Author Index 417
19. Subject Index 421