The medicare problem and its potential solution -- The current status and future of today's medicare -- Paying for projected medicare expenditures: taxing the young -- Paying for projected medicare expenditures: making the elderly pay -- Scoring medicare reform I: the medicare commission --...

This study uses the Continuous Medicare History Sample (CMHS), a longitudinal sample of Medicare beneficiaries from 1974 to 1997, to identify persistence in Medicare reimbursements. Consistent estimates of Medicare reimbursement persistence are obtained using a dynamic panel Tobit model. Lagged...