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Medicare’s Embedded Ethics: The Challenge Of Cost Control In An Aging Society


March 28th, 2011
 
by Sharon Kaufman and Wendy Max

The challenge of reining in the rising costs of the Medicare Program is particularly thorny because it confronts a recalcitrant societal tension between the necessity for cost control and the value of open-ended technology use for life extension in the later years. That tension is becoming more deeply entrenched because a growing number of older... Read the rest of this entry »

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