The Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research

Promoting a Healthy Life for U.S. Elderly:
What are the Appropriate Policy Levers?

June 8, 2000

Author: Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D.

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Table of Contents:

Promoting a Healthy Life for US Elderly: What Are The Appropriate Policy Levers?

Is this a National, State, Local, or Personal Issue?

National Issue

State Issue

Local Issue

Personal Issue

Are We Perplexed Yet?

Current Debate: The Medicare Program

The Ideological/Philosophical Debates

Searching for the Middle Ground

Using All Approaches

Rational Policy?

The Best Hope for the US

Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel and the Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research