Chapter 19 Aging, Social Security, and Health Care

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Chapter 19 Aging, Social Security, and Health
Care
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Social Security

• Aging of the population
• Solvency
• Effect of Social Security on individual savings

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Health care

• moral hazard problem
• mandatory insurance?
• medical cost inflation
• effect on employment

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Health care

• Moral hazard problem
• Mandatory insurance
• Medical cost inflation
• HMOs and PPOs
• Market for human organs?