"A premier expert on Medicare, Marilyn Moon has produced a comprehensive, clear, up-to-date, and definitive picture of the program, its beneficiaries, its politics, and its ongoing policy challenges. Anyone interested in the program—beneficiaries, students, journalists, public officials, and policy analysts—needs to read this book and keep it close at hand."
—Robert H. Binstock, professor of aging, health, and society, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
"A readable roadmap to sanity and decency in America's health care system."
—Robert M. Hayes, president, Medicare Rights Center
Medicare: A Policy Primer, by Marilyn Moon, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 230 pages, ISBN 0-87766-753-5, $26.50).