Medicare has had a negative impact on health care quality. By the time Congress created
Medicare in 1965, research had demonstrated many US physicians and hospitals were …

Medicare is the primary source of health insurance for the elderly and disabled in the United
States (US), and so it is by far the largest payer in the US health care system accounting for …

Since the early 1990s, policy analysts seeking important opportunities for reform in the
Medicare program have looked at the experience of private mar-kets and managed care in …

According to one prominent study, adults in the United States receive the generally accepted
standard of preventive, acute, and chronic care only about 55% of the time.'The likelihood …

Moffit and Marie Fishpaw (hereafter, MM) suggests that there is a third way to help keep
program expenses in line with the revenue sources prescribed in current law. The entire …

Since the 1970s, and codified in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982,
Medicare beneficiaries have had the choice of receiving their Medicare benefits through …

The rising cost of Medicare is placing an increasing burden on current and future taxpayers,
as well as exacerbating the poor financial condition of a program on which America's …

Overconfidence is central to the American political psyche. Notwithstanding the length and
complexity of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), 2 opinions as to the …

The Medicare program should be a leader in national efforts to improve quality of care. This
paper proposes a new system of quality bonuses for Medicare+ Choice plans and lays out a …

Proposed health care reform will bureaucratize the medical industry, curtail services to
patients and dissuade talented people from entering healthcare professions. Price controls …