PUBLIC POLICY FOR AN AGING SOCIETY

这项研究考察了与老年人老龄化有关的两个公共政策问题 社会：对老年人幸福感的衡量；以及 关于医疗和医疗的替代保健报销制度 结果。第一个项目比较和对比了基于收入的衡量标准 基于消费的措施和直接获得 资源。该项目将利用关于消费和资源数据 过去30年，老年人和非老年人都可以使用 人口。将使用随时间和跨年龄段的比较 确定需要政府支持的人口，并预测 随着人口老龄化，对资源的需求越来越大。 第二个项目考虑了替代性偿还的后果。 提供医疗服务的政策。它有三个组成部分 对这项工作；预期付款对治疗和不良反应的影响 医疗结果；医院技术获取对 预期报销；以及国家无偿护理的影响 为未参保者提供护理的资金池。该项目考虑 医院护理的供应是否对报销的变化做出反应 系统，以及这些供应响应是否反过来影响潜在的 医院病人的健康。该项目使用国家和州的数据 入院人数，不同公司拥有技术的数据 医院类型，以及预期价格变化的数据 支付和国家无偿医疗池。

This research examines two public policy issues related to the aging of society: the measurement of well-being among the aged; and the effects of alternative health care reimbursement systems on medical treatments and outcomes. The first project compares and contrasts income based measures of well-being with measures based on consumption and direct access to resources. The project will utilize data on consumption and resource access over the past 30 years, for both the elderly and non-elderly populations. The comparisons over time and across age groups will be used to identify the population in need of government support, and to forecast resource needs as the population ages. The second project considers the consequences of alternative reimbursement policies for the delivery of medical services. There are three components to this work; the effect of prospective payment on treatments and adverse medical outcomes; the responsiveness of hospital technology acquisition to prospective reimbursement; and the implications of state uncompensated care pools for the provision of care to the uninsured. The project considers whether the supply of hospital care responds to changes in reimbursement systems, and whether these supply responses in turn affect the underlying health of hospital patients. The project uses national and state data on admissions to hospitals, data on the ownership of technology by different types of hospitals, and data on price changes resulting from prospective payment and state uncompensated care pools.