Medicare Facts and Figures
A California Perspective
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2006Published in: California Healthcare Foundation, (Oakland, CA: California Healthcare Foundation, Feb. 2006)
A California Perspective
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2006Published in: California Healthcare Foundation, (Oakland, CA: California Healthcare Foundation, Feb. 2006)
This graphic overview of Medicare in California covers demographics, health status, insurance coverage, quality of care, utilization, and spending. It provides a framework to better understand current and anticipated trends, and serves as a tool to help decision-makers and advocates design policies and programs that meet the needs of beneficiaries.
This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations.
RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.