Given the Current Structure of Health-Care Finance, Which of the Following

question 59

Multiple Choice

Given the current structure of health-care finance, which of the following is most likely to occur when the baby boom generation begins to retire and the elderly population increases rapidly during the years following 2010?

• A) The demand for health-care services will decrease.
• B) The prices of health-care services will grow less rapidly than has been the case during the last three decades.
• C) The real (adjusted for inflation) expenditures on Medicare and the taxes to finance the program will tend to decline.
• D) The health-care inflation and spending growth of recent decades will continue or even accelerate.

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