Health Policy Simulation
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Medicare Seniors Will Live Longer But Sicker, Study Finds
Researchers analyze concerns, trends and policy considerations critical for the sustainability of Medicare in a series of studies.
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Health and Health Care of Medicare Beneficiaries in 2030
The 2030 Medicare recipient will likely be a woman, disabled, and suffering from either one or a combination of chronic health conditions such as hypertension and diabetes.
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USC Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation renewed by NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed the Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation’s funding for an additional five years.
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Nobel Laureate James Heckman joins the USC Schaeffer Center
Nobel Prize winner and economics expert James J. Heckman has joined the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics .
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Schaeffer Faculty Offer Expertise on Medicare’s Future at DC Forum
When the last baby boomers sign up for Medicare in 2030, they’ll have long lives ahead. A man 65 likely will live 18.3 more years and a woman 65 another 21.7 years. Unfortunately, there’s a downside.
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Medicare’s Big Fat Problem, Fiscal and Otherwise
You can’t draw a straight line between growing Medicare spending and expanding American waistlines. But policymakers would be wise to keep both in mind as they ponder how to pay for the health care of 75-million-plus baby boomers who likely will live longer in worse health.
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The Value of Delaying Alzheimer’s Disease Onset
Models show that the number of patients will more than double in 40 years, and costs associated with their care will nearly quintuple.
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ASHEcon: June 22-25, 2014
The Schaeffer Center was selected to host the 2014 American Society for Health Economists (ASHEcon), the premiere conference in health economics.
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The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy: Using the Future Elderly Model to Estimate Implications for Social Security and Medicare
This paper used the Future Elderly Model to estimate the effects of increased mortality gaps on the progressivity of Social Security and Medicare for those born between 1928 and 1990, and found that significant reductions in progressivity of both programs if current mortality trends persist and noticeable effects on total program costs.
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Growing Older But Not Growing Old
For many, growing older is not accompanied by life-limiting declines in health, according to a new study in the Journals of Gerontology.
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