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Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Keynote address / Yeo Cheow Tong -- Health care for aging populations: issues and options / Jacques van der Gaag and Alexander Preker -- International comparison of medical savings accounts / Nicholas Prescott and Len M Nichols -- Financing health care in old age: a case study of Singapore / Kai Hong Phua and Yap Mui Teng -- Comment / Choong May Ling -- Social security financing policies and rapidly aging populations / Aviva Ron -- New models for old age security: experiments, evidence and unanswered questions / Estelle James -- Financial security in old age: a case study of Singapore / Linda Low and Aw Tar Choon -- Comment / Lim Han Soon, Aw Tar Choon -- Comment / Lin Han Soon -- Comment / Tom Snyder.

This volume contains the keynote address (delivered by Singapore ' s Minister for Health and for the Environment, Yeo Cheow Tong), six papers, and four comments prepared for the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore-World Bank Conference on Financing Health Care and Old Age Security, held in Singapore on 8 November 1997. Conference participants addressed a looming problem for nearly every country, developing and industrial: how to deal with the implications rapidly aging populations have for the financing of medical care and income security for the elderly. Of special interest are the contributor ' s analyses of Singapore ' s unique, integrated approach to managing social risk, which is based on mandatory individual savings accounts. Singapore ' s pioneering model unifies medical savings accounts for acute medical care in old age with a provident fund for retirement income. While the lessons of Singapore ' s experience are of worldwide interest given current efforts to reform social security systems, the minister ' s keynote address highlights the continuing need for innovations to refine the basic model - calling for the development of a new approach to financing the growing problem of long-term medical care for the elderly.