Medicare

May 15, 2013

Health policy economists are puzzled by a persistent slowdown in the growth of health care spending that seems to have started in mid-2005, and accelerated since then.

May 10, 2013

In 1965, almost no parents put their three-year-olds in nursery school.

April 23, 2013

As cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18.

April 23, 2013

President Obama tells us in the Overview to his Fiscal Year 2014 Budget just released last week that his budget proposes, “more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1 of new revenue from closing tax

April 15, 2013

The Medicare Spending Program

Craig Eyermann
November 30, 2012

This study is a brief history of the United States Medicare health insurance program.

April 06, 2013

Ezra Klein has a lengthy piece taking apart

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  • So it turns out the whole Arkansas Medicaid expansion alternative is looking more and more like one big April Fool’s joke, and one in poor taste to boot.

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    March 27, 2013

    The New York Times told its readers on March 12 that Paul Ryan’s proposed 2014 budget involves “eliminating Medicare’s guarantee to retirees” and “dispensing with Medicaid and food st

    Retirement home America

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    March 19, 2013
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    If ever there were required reading for members of Congress and White House officials, it should be Robert Samuelson's column on how government spending on the elderly is crowding out spending on e

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