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• Policy Note No. 3
  June 01, 2003

  Caring for a Large Geriatric Generation

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  The time has more than come to begin planning seriously for the aging of the baby-boom generation. The need for planning goes beyond concerns about the solvency of Social Security…more

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• Policy Note No. 3
  March 01, 2001

  Financing Health Care

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  The problem is that the payers of health care—government and employers alike—are in open revolt against costs they never anticipated would become so high. Payers succeeded for a time in…more

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• Policy Note No. 4
  April 01, 2000

  Health Care Finance in Need of Rethinking

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  Hospitals have been squeezed by the Balanced Budget Act; the uninsured population is still on the rise; and long-term care is paid for largely by welfare grants. The nation’s flawed…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 59
  February 03, 2000

  Financing Long-Term Care

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  The nation is not prepared to deal with the jump in expenditures for long-term care that will come with the aging of the baby-boom generation. Only a small part of…more

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• Working Paper No. 283
  October 01, 1999

  Financing Long-Term Care

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  The nation is ill-prepared to finance the quantum jump in long-term care spending that is on its way as the baby boom ages. By default rather than by design, Medicaid…more

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• Policy Note No. 10
  October 01, 1999

  Social Security Privatization

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  Would privatization yield sufficient benefits to support low-income retirees and satisfy all others? Does a focus on private management of assets take attention away from the real issues in the…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 47
  December 09, 1998

  Regulating HMOs

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  HMO medicine sets up an inevitable conflict between the physicians’ traditional fiduciary role and the financial interests of the health plan and its physicians. Regulatory interventions, such as the formulation…more

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• Working Paper No. 239
  July 01, 1998

  An Ethical Framework for Cost-Effective Medicine

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  HMO medicine has been effective in controlling once-runaway health care costs. But it sets up inevitable conflict between patient care and the financial well-being of the health plan and of…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 40
  May 02, 1998

  Overcoming America’s Infrastructure Deficit

  Walter M. Cadette and S. Jay Levy
  Abstract

  Condemned bridges, dilapidated school buildings, contaminated water supplies, and other infrastructure shortcomings threaten American growth, productivity, and prosperity. The authors of this brief propose a plan for financing infrastructure projects…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 34
  September 07, 1997

  Safeguarding Social Security

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  The falling ratio of workers to retirees in the United States has raised concerns about Social Security’s ability to continue to provide a base level of support for all retired…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 30
  April 03, 1997

  Prescription for Health Care Policy

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  With health care delivery increasingly shaped by market and budgetary discipline, the provision of health care for all seems an ever-more-distant goal.The high cost of American health care is the…more

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• Working Paper No. 192
  April 01, 1997

  Social Security

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  Some reform of Social Security is needed to keep the system solvent given the additional financial pressure that will be placed on it as the baby boom generation retires: the…more

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• Working Paper No. 171
  July 21, 1996

  Rethinking Health Care Policy—The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies

  Walter M. Cadette
  Abstract

  More than 40 million Americans currently have no access to health care for reasons of income. Moreover, plans enacted or discussed at the state level to cover the uninsured face…more

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