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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....