Table of Contents

Part I: Medicare and Medicaid –
These Two Mainstays Are Everybody’s Problem

      Chapter 1: What We Want to Accomplish and Why *Download Preview*
      Chapter 2: Medicare and Medicaid
      Chapter 3: First Recapitulation

Part II: The Perfect Storm –
Three Trends Are Threatening the Very Existence of Medicare and Medicaid

      Chapter 4: Trend I -- Growing Demand for Long-term Healthcare
      Chapter 5: Trend II -- Increasing Difficulty Finding Caregivers
      Chapter 6: Trend III -- Soaring Cost of Long-Term Healthcare
      Chapter 7: Consequences of Rising Long-Term Care Costs
      Chapter 8: Why Does Long-term Care Cost So Much?
      Chapter 9: Second Recapitulation

Part III: To Tax or To Ration –
Healthcare Rationing Is Here, and It’s Expanding

      Chapter 10: Empirical Rationing
      Chapter 11: Clinical Rationing
      Chapter 12: Ethical Issues in Rationing
      Chapter 13: Third Recapitulation

Part IV: Foundation for a National Conversation –
Toward a Distinctly American Rationing Plan

      Chapter 14: Affinity Groups
      Chapter 15: Individual Choices
      Chapter 16: Fourth Recapitulation
      Chapter 17: Grand Summary and Recommendations
      Endnotes, References, Appendixes, Index, About the Authors