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Category: Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare (for the elderly) and Medicaid (for the poor) are the nation's two largest health care entitlement programs. They
are also facing multi-trillion dollar deficits in coming decades as expenditures dwarf tax revenues. While some have advocated that the U.S.
adopt a Canadian-style "single-payer" health care system to reign in costs, the Center for Medical Progress recognizes that price controls
and rationing will only exacerbate the health care challenges facing our nation, not solve them.
Reforming these programs means opening Medicare and Medicaid to private competition, reforming payment mechanisms that
reward hospitals and physicians for quality care, and implement transparency initiatives that put consumers, not bureaucrats, in control of
their own health care spending through health savings accounts and other patient-friendly mechanisms. Together with a reasonable safety net
for the sickest and poorest Americans, empowered patients can help restrain low-value spending without dampening the market incentives driving
health care innovation.
[Spotlight] [Commentary] [Research] [Events] [News]
Commentary
- Release of Medicare Data Could Help Reform Health Care System, Michael O. Leavitt and Robert Krughoff, Washington Post, 3-19-10
- Taxing Details That Harm Patients, Bob Dole, Wall Street Journal, 1-13-10
- The Lessons of Medicare Part D, David Wessel, Wall Street Journal, 1-7-10
- Medicare and the Mayo Clinic, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, 1-6-10
- Medicare Part D 'Reforms' Will Harm Seniors, Tom Scully, Wall Street Journal, 12-4-09
- Obama's Medicare Disadvantage, Richard Epstein, Forbes.com, 9-29-09
- Some Inconvenient Truths About Medicare and the New 'Public Plan', Regina Herzlinger and Robert Book, RealClearPolitics.com, 7-25-09
- Why It's Easy to Steal From Medicare, Wall Street Journal editorial, 7-2-09
- Democrats Should Reform Medicare, Not Universalize It, Mort Kondracke, RealClearPolitics, 5-8-09
- MEDICAID MADNESS, New York Post, 5-4-09
- HOW NEW YORK STOKES DEPENDENCY, E.J. McMahon, New York Post, 4-30-09
- Evidence and Health Care Reform, New York Times editorial, 2-28-09
- Medicaid for Millionaires, Rep. Cliff Stearns, Townhall.com, 2-23-09
- Health care 'cuts' are actually critical Medicaid reforms, Charles King, New York Daily News, 2-19-09
- Medicare and 'Off-Label' Cancer Drugs, New York Times, 2-10-09
- What Medicaid Tells Us About Government Health Care, Scott Gottlieb, Wall Street Journal, 1-8-09
Research
- Releasing Medicare Claims Data To Support Quality Improvement Initiatives: Legal Barriers And Opportunities, J.H. Thorpe, E. Pereira, and S. Rosenbaum, George Washington University/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 3-18-10
- State Abuse of the Medicaid Program: How state officials manipulate Medicaid and increase costs to taxpayers, Washington Policy Center, February 2010
- Obama's Proposed Medicaid Expansion: Lessons from TennCare, Brian Blase, Heritage Foundation, 3-3-10
- Expanding Medicaid: The Real Costs to the States, Edmund F. Haislmaier, Heritage Foundation, 1-15-10
- Medicaid Expansion Ignores States' Fiscal Crises, Dennis G. Smith, The Heritage Foundation, 1-7-10
- The Wrong Medicare Advantage Reform: Cutting Benefits, Limiting Choices, and Increasing Costs, James C. Capretta and Robert A. Book, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation, 10-30-09
- Competitive Pricing for All Medicare Health Plans, Robert F. Coulman, Roger Feldman, and Bryan E. Dowd, American Enterprise Institute, July 2009
- Medicaid's Costs, Like Medicare's, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care, Jeffrey H. Anderson, Pacific Research Institute, July 2009
- Medicare Administrative Costs Are Higher, Not Lower, Than for Private Insurance, Robert Book, The Heritage Foundation, 6-25-09
- Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2009, Pamela Villarreal, National Center for Policy Analysis, 6-11-09
- Closing the Long-Term Care Funding Gap: The Challenge of Private Long-Term Care Insurance, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 6-3-09
- A First Big Step Toward Medicare Sustainability, J.D. Foster, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation, 3-24-09
- How Medicare's Drug Pricing Can Hurt R&D, Cheryl Smith and Laura L Summers, Heritage Foundation, 1-12-09
News
- Five Questions About President Obama's Five Questions About President Obama's Proposed Changes To The Medicare Payroll Tax, Kaiser Health News, 3-10-10
- Five Questions About President Obama's Proposed Changes To The Medicare Payroll Tax, Kaiser Health News, 3-10-10
- Preliminary Medicare Advantage Rates Lift Health Insurers, Wall Street Journal, 2-22-10
- States Resist Medicaid Growth, Washington Post, 10-5-09
- Democrats Push Health Care Plan While Issuing Assurances on Medicare, New York Times, 7-29-09
- Under Agreement, Medicare Would Pay Less for Drugs, Washington Post, 6-20-09
- Emerging $80B Deal Would Help Fund Medicare Drugs, Fox News, 6-20-09
- More Problems Than Solutions in Medicare Report, David S. Hilzenrath, Washington Post, 06-16-09
- U.S. Reduces Subsidies for Private Medicare, Wall Street Journal, 4-7-09
- Medicare Spending Still Varies Widely by Region, New York Times, 2-26-09
- Like Having Medicare? Then Taxes Must Rise, New York Times, 2-24-09
- NY leads nation in long-term care spending, USA Today, 2-24-09
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