When Dr. Dana Goldman thinks about retirement in the future, he’s not thinking about picking up a past-time: “If people are living to 100…then 65 becomes middle age,” he observes, adding “What does it mean when people are working until age eighty-five?”
Dr. Goldman is a Professor of Health Services and Radiology at UCLA and the Director of Health Economics at the RAND corporation where he devotes much of his time to studying long-term and widescale trends in health care, both how much it costs and how we pay for it.
In thinking about how to deal with the health care crisis, uh, we are — we have to deal with it in a long-term way. We’re talking about changes that are gonna occur over twenty to fifty years. But we have a political process in the United States that’s focused on two to six years. The election cycle. And so it’s never anyone’s problem to deal with it long-term.
In the following interview, we look ahead to a world where a pill can add 15 years to your life and, in turn, billions to the state’s health care expenditures.
- The Quality of Health Care Received by Older Adults, RAND Research Briefs
- Dana Goldman, Ph.D., Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health
- Mark D. Smith, Dr. Mark Smith of the California HealthCare Foundation on the national health insurance crisis, California Connected
- RV Interview: The Limits of Our Long-Term Future, Timothy P. Duane of UC Berkeley on waste, growth and California’s future, California Connected
- Working Papers by Dana Goldman at the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Population and Aging Featured Projects, Research Areas, RAND Corporation