Aging Population | Medicare Needs Radical Reform

Medicare—a federal program established in 1965 to provide health insurance to persons age sixty-five and over—is rife with problems and in need of radical reform, Sandra Mahkorn asserts in the following viewpoint. She contends that Medicare is a huge and overly bureaucratic system that impedes quality care by establishing arbitrary standards that make it difficult for doctors to provide necessary treatments. According to Mahkorn, Medicare cannot be fixed through additional bureaucracy and instead should be replaced with a system that is based on patient choice and market competition....

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