Medicare Expansion to Near Elderly

• President Clinton Proposal: Issue Summary (Policy.com, 1/12/98)
  Includes summary of proposal, key statistics and reaction of major interest groups.
   
• Analysis
• "Declining Employer Coverage May Affect Access for 55- to 64-year-olds." (GAO 6/98: PDF file)
• New Study Finds That Most Uninsured Near Elderly Would Have Severe Difficulty Affording Coverage Under the President's Medicare Buy-in Plan (Center for Studying Health System Change: 4/1/98)
• Near Elderly: Democrats Unveil Medicare Buy-In Bill (3/17/98)
• Estimated Cost of Proposed Near Elderly Expansion (CBO: 3/98)
• Next Steps in Incremental Health Insurance Expansions: Who is Most Deserving? (Center for Studying Health System Change: 4/98)
• "Wrong Medicine at the Wrong Time": Goodman and Cordell, Brief Analysis No. 253, National Center for Policy Analysis, January 12, 1998.
• Medicare Extension a Step in the Right Direction (Robert Kuttner:1998)
• Expanding Troubled Medicare (National Center for Policy Analysis)