Medicare matters : what geriatric medicine can teach American health care / Christine K. Cassel.

Medicare and the social contract
Longevity and health
Ensuring quality of care for elderly patients
Care management: the key to modern geriatric medicine
Palliative care
Medicare coverage: gaps, limits, and anomalies
Why sixty-five? the case for lowering the age of Medicare eligibility
Insurance: concepts and changes
Prescription drugs: the challenge remains
Politics: reforming Medicare reform
Rationing is inevitable
The social contract.