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Market Solutions to Fix Medicare Insolvency
A range of plans and studies proposing ways to stave off the insolvency of Medicare, the nation’s primary health care program for seniors and...
Bipartisan Deal Removes Medicare Loophole
With Medicare facing insolvency before the end of the decade, a bipartisan trio of senators is proposing savings by reforming the sprawling program’s billing...
Lawsuits Challenge Medicare Drug Price Controls
Drug makers Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed separate lawsuits challenging Medicare’s new authority to negotiate...
Medicare Will Require a Payroll Tax Hike—Trustees Report
President Biden suggests raising Medicare taxes on higher-income households. “Biden’s proposal to raise taxes to address Medicare’s future financial problem ignores how progressive Medicare taxes already are.”
How Congress Can Save Medicare
During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans had an entertaining back and forth about the president’s claim that Republicans wanted to “sunset” Medicare. The raucous exchange ended with both parties applauding their apparent agreement not to touch the popular program.
Medicare and Social Security Insolvency Looms
“Neither political party has put forward a viable proposal to deal with the $150 trillion in unfunded liabilities these programs represent."
Medicare and Social Security: How Much Do We Really Owe? – Commentary
"... the present value of our commitments to the elderly, looking indefinitely into the future, is on the order of ten times the size of the U.S. economy!"
Congress Agrees to Smaller Cut in Medicare Payments to Doctors
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cut payments to physicians two percent on January 1, but the reductions would have been deeper...
Veronique de Rugy: Why Would Republicans Rule Out Social Security and Medicare Reform?
The GOP's well-intentioned engagement in the overall debt-ceiling dispute is limited by the short time Congress has to raise the limit, columnist Veronique de...
CMS Makes Adjustments, as Medicare Heads for Insolvency
CMS makes adjustments that lower seniors' Medicare premiums, and cuts payments to physicians in 2023 that Congress could reverse.
CMS Makes Adjustments, as Medicare Heads...