Overview

This overview discusses articles published in this special 30th Anniversary of Medicare issue of the Health Care Financing Review. The authors whose work appears in this special commemorative issue all participated in a policy symposium held on May 6, 1996, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas. The symposium, Medicare: Advancing Towards the 21st Century, was held in honor of the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the Medicare program. Co-sponsors of the symposium included the Health Care Financing Administration, the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.