Redesigning the medicare contract : politics, markets, and agency / Edward F. Lawlor.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2003], ©2003.

viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-255) and index.

Why Medicare needs good agency -- Medicare's politics and the incomplete social contract -- Agency and Medicare policy design -- Medicare managed care -- A Medicare parable: technology and the artificial heart story -- A Medicare contract for end-of-life care -- Principals and agents, realities, and Medicare reform.