Medical Xpress June 26, 2020
A significant number of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries have recently experienced a steep increase in the percentage of older residents due to the baby-boom wave hitting the 65-year-old barrier. In the United States and in France, the vulnerable population aged 65 and over will increase due to population aging, growing prevalence of long-term conditions and effects of COVID-19 on health.
Despite the immense differences between the two countries’ health care systems, the establishment in 1966 of the Medicare program for those 65 years and older moved the US health insurance level closer to that of France and other countries with universal health care.
However, as the costs of health and long-term care...
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