%0 Book Section %B Private Versicherung und Soziale Sicherung: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Roland Eisen %D 2001 %T How Costly are Smokers to Medicare? %A Frank A Sloan %A Gabriel A. Picone %E Mager, Hans-Christian %E Schafer, Henry %E Schrufer, Klaus %K Consumption and Savings %K Health Conditions and Status %K Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance %B Private Versicherung und Soziale Sicherung: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Roland Eisen %I Metropolis Verlag %C Marburg %P 103-33 %G eng %4 Smoking/Medicare/Costs %$ 13812 %! How Costly are Smokers to Medicare? %0 Book Section %B Frontiers in Health Policy Research %D 2001 %T How Costly Are Smokers to Other People? Longitudinal Evidence on the Near Elderly %A Gabriel A. Picone %A Frank A Sloan %E Garber, Alan M. %K Demographics %K Health Conditions and Status %K Healthcare %K Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance %X This study looks at the impact that smoking has on people over the course of time. Data and studies on the costs of smoking, not just for the smoker but for people around them, are very important for many issues. People aged 51-67 are used since that is the time frame where health problems caused by smoking tend to be most prominent. The researchers calculate the costs from healthcare based on the type of insurer. In the end it is concluded that government payers and then Medicare and Medicaid take the largest amount of the financial problem for smoking. Private insurance companies did not seem to take on a great deal of the costs from this behavior. %B Frontiers in Health Policy Research %I MIT Press %C Cambridge, MA %P 1-29 %G eng %4 Middle Aged Adults/Smoking/Health Care Costs/Medicaid/Medicare %$ 6646 %! How Costly Are Smokers to Other People? Longitudinal Evidence on the Near Elderly