Econ Comments
AEI | Health Spending Projection Spin Cycle: Rinse and Repeat, or Reset?
The overall cost effects of the new health law are more complex and conjectural, but its feasibility and sustainability remain highly doubtful.
AEI | Response to John Goodman and Thomas Saving on Medicare's Efficiency
Excess cost growth was lower, on average, during that period than during the longer 1975-2008 period. That slowing probably stems, at least in part, from two important shifts: Private health insurance moved away from indemnity policies--which generally reimburse enrollees for their incurred medical costs, and which predominated before the 1990s--and toward greater management of care; and Medicare shifted from cost-based payment methods to fee schedules that seem less conducive to spending growth because price increases are constrained.
Blogs
Cato @ Liberty | Medicare Fraud: Et Tu, Reverend?
ObamaCare will bring even more fraud. And efforts to combat Medicare, Medicaid, and ObamaCare fraud will always be inadequate until Congress reforms or scraps these entitlement programs.
Reports
Heritage Foundation | A Recipe for Reform: Success of Consumer-Driven Principles in Medicare Programs
Already generating tens of billions of dollars annually in deficits, its financial challenges threaten taxpayers and enrollees alike. Moving to a premium-support model would reverse the program’s deterioration by using the dynamics of the free market to contain costs and improve consumer satisfaction.
