Tag: Medicare

How Obama Would Cut Medicare and Medicaid

Yesterday, President Obama finally entered the debate about the national debt with…

GlennLaffel

Medicare Spending by Program Service Categories, 2010

Medicare is the largest payer in the $2.5 trillion dollar health care…

JasonShafrin

Medicare Data Access Provides Payment Transparency

It’s got bipartisan support, and it would call for transparency the amount…

MichaelDouglas1

You Can’t Take That Away From Me

Is this “the end of progressive government?” asks E.J. Dionne in The…

JohnCGoodman

Is the GOP Ready to Get Serious About Medicare?

One of the most despairing aspects of the last 10 years has…

DavidEWilliams

Churning in ObamaCare

A new article in Health Affairs brings attention to the problem of…

JohnCGoodman

Are There Differences in Medicare Spending Across States?

Research by the Dartmouth Atlas team has indicated that Medicare spending is…

JasonShafrin

How Increasing Medicare Age of Eligibility Saves Under Reform

One of the stopgaps in federal spending on healthcare proposed by the…

MichaelDouglas1

Medicare Advantage Redux

Writing at the Health Affairs Blog the other day, Marsha Gold claimed…

JohnCGoodman

Medicare Advantage Premiums

In 2010, one quarter of Medicare beneficiaries chose capitated plans through the…

JasonShafrin