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April 10, 2013 9:39 AM Why Medicare Reform Hasn’t Worked

Nicholas Bagley’s “Bedside Bureaucrats: Why Medicare Reform Hasn’t Worked” (PDF) is a well-reasoned critique of the program and the Affordable Care Act’s reform of it. The premise establishes the fundamental tension: By culture and politics, in the U.S. we, by...

By Austin Frakt

April 01, 2013 10:02 AM That Quote Doesn't Mean What Liz Cheney Thinks it Means

Jon Chait beat me to this. I don’t care. I’ve have a ridiculously busy morning, and I want to point it out, too.Liz Cheney has an op-ed in the WSJ today on how if Republicans don’t act, and soon, to...

By Aaron Carroll

February 28, 2013 8:24 AM Raising the Medicare Age Induces a Cost Shift

Adrianna McIntyre sounds a familiar theme, but in a new context. [Moving] 65-70 year olds from Medicare into private insurance populations will make those [private insurance] populations, in the aggregate, more expensive. Some of these people are bound to end...

By Austin Frakt

February 19, 2013 9:01 AM Medicare’s Administrative Costs, Explained

In the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Kip Sullivan of the Minnesota chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program thinks almost everyone doesn’t understand Medicare’s administrative costs. He has problems of varying degree with the writing of...

By Austin Frakt

February 14, 2013 11:20 AM Simpson-Bowles on Medicare

The President mentioned being open to Medicare reforms of similar cost magnitude to those proposed by the Simpson-Bowles report in the State of the Union.Here is a post from April, 2011 on the health policy proposals of the Simpson-Bowles report....

By Don Taylor