Medicare Needs the Life Support of Premium Support
Medicare reform is coming soon; it has to if the program is going to survive. As budget expert J. D. Foster writes, “Medicare reform is inevitable because its demands on the federal budget are...
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Medicare Rationing and Obama’s Unelected Board of Bureaucrats
Earlier this week, the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee moved legislation forward that would repeal one of the most intrusive and unpopular parts of Obamacare: the Independent Payment...
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Medicare Reform: Premium Support Is Bipartisan
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health held a hearing last Friday to discuss the bipartisan effort behind competing premium support plans. These plans would restructure traditional Medicare...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Facing the Medicare Debate Head-On
Quick quiz: Who said this about Medicare? “With an aging population and rising health care costs, we are spending too fast to sustain the program. And if we don’t gradually reform the system while...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Bringing Medicaid into the Debate
Medicare is an emotionally charged program because it provides health insurance coverage for the elderly. But Medicaid covers America’s poor and disabled—and no one wants to see them harmed, either....
View ArticleDebunking Medicare Reform Myths
In a recent paper, Heritage expert Bob Moffit responds to the critics of the premium-support model for Medicare. This type of reform would give seniors a defined government contribution toward the cost...
View ArticleChart of the Week: Tax Revenues Devoured by Entitlements
The looming unsustainability of the big three entitlement spending programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—is not inevitable, but in order to avoid the catastrophic effects of consuming every...
View ArticleMorning Bell: How Obamacare Robs Medicare and Hurts Seniors
The rhetorical Medicare wars have heated up this week, after President Obama declared in his Saturday radio address that his proposed reforms “won’t touch your guaranteed Medicare benefits. Not by a...
View ArticleMedicare Reform Debate: What Really Works in Health Care Competition
Recently, economist Paul Krugman derided the premium support plan to reform Medicare: Still, wouldn’t private insurers reduce costs through the magic of the marketplace? No. All, and I mean all, the...
View ArticleMedicare Roundup 9/17: Setting the Record Straight
In recent weeks, liberal politicians, editorialists, and policy analysts have vigorously attacked reforming Medicare based on defined-contribution financing. In fact, this approach to reforming...
View ArticleMedicare Roundup 9/21: Setting the Record Straight
In recent weeks, liberal politicians, editorialists, and policy analysts have vigorously attacked reform of Medicare based on a defined contribution financing. In fact, this approach to reforming...
View ArticleRomney’s “60 Minutes” Fix For Social Security and Medicare
President Obama’s and Governor Romney’s appearances on “60 Minutes” Sunday revealed an interesting contrast. The President punted on a serious question about the nation’s concern over spending—blaming...
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Morning Bell: Two Liberal Whoppers on Medicare
A debate that has been fought largely over the airwaves is about to go head-to-head. Medicare reform is a huge part of that debate, and the left—bolstered by the media—has been promoting two huge...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Heritage Experts React to First Presidential Debate
During last night’s debate between President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney, Heritage’s domestic policy experts were live-blogging their analysis of the ideas discussed. Below are some of the...
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First Presidential Debate 2012: Top 10 True/False Quiz
During last night’s presidential debate, claims were flying fast and furious. Some of these claims were true, others false. Here are the top 10—see which ones you can guess as either true or false. 1....
View ArticleMedicare and Seniors: Answering the $6,400 Question
Opponents to Medicare reform have been making plenty of erroneous claims about Medicare premium support lately, one of the worst being that Representative Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) premium-support model,...
View ArticleKaiser Study on Medicare Assumes Seniors Don’t Like Lower Prices
The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a study that grossly misrepresents the premium-support model of Medicare reform and apparently misunderstands normal market dynamics and the differences...
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Saving Medicare: New Legislation from Retiring Congressman Herger
Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA). (Photo: James Berglie/Zuma Press/Newscom) Retiring House Ways and Mean Health Care Subcommittee chairman Wally Herger (R–CA) has introduced the most complete and...
View ArticleToo Eager for a Fiscal Cliff Deal: Republican Leadership’s $1 Trillion Tax Hike
The latest fiscal cliff proposal by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R–OH) is infuriatingly frustrating to conservatives, again. In exchange for $1 trillion in tax hikes—including the President’s...
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How to Fix the Medicare Physician Payment Problem
Photo credit: Newscom The congressional formula that determines the annual Medicare payment update for physicians, the sustainable growth rate (SGR), was supposed to cut Medicare doctors’ pay each year...
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