Medicare and Medicaid : How Can We Afford Them?

Cover -- About This Issue Guide -- Introduction: Medicare and Medicaid: How Can We Afford Them? -- Option One: Do What It Takes to Maintain Our Commitment -- Tax hikes may make sense -- Sharing in the cost -- What we could do -- Option Two: Reduce Health-Care Costs Throughout the System -- Waste robs health-care dollars -- Bargaining over drug prices -- What we could do -- Option Three: Get Serious about Prevention -- Curb alcohol use, not just smoking -- Put farmers' markets on wheels -- Care for seniors and the disabled at home -- What we could do -- Summary: Medicare &amp -- Medicaid: How Can We Afford Them?.

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