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Medicare Spending Peaks at Age 96  

In his latest column for The Wall Street Journal‘s Think Tank, Drew Altman discusses the implications of a Kaiser finding: per capita Medicare spending peaks at age 96, and the main reason is not end-of-life care.

All previous columns by Drew Altman are available online.

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