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Using Competition and Medicare Accountable Care Organizations to Control Costs
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Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (322+ words) In 1980, combined federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid was equal to 1.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects it will be 6.3 percent of GDP in 2026 and 7.3 percent in 2036. The added cost burden of these programs…...
Medicare-for-All Makes a Comeback
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (155+ words) Medicare-for-All Makes a Comeback'American Enterprise Institute - AEI Medicare-for-All Makes a Comeback Juliana Stratton, Illinois" Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, favors Medicare-for-all. So does progressive heartthrob Graham Platner, who is running for Senate in Maine. Abdul El-Sayed, another Senate hopeful, touts the…...
Improving Medicare Program Integrity - American Enterprise Institute - AEI
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (324+ words) GAO's widely cited estimate of Medicare's "improper payments" " $54 billion per year, at last count " is susceptible to being misinterpreted because of what it includes and excludes. On the one hand, it overstates the problem because, according to the Department of…...
Entitlement Reform: A Problem We Can No Longer Avoid
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (96+ words) By James C. Capretta The American Idea by Ashbrook Center The clock is ticking on America's most popular social programs. Social Security's trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2034just nine years awayleaving the system with enough revenue to pay only…...
The Future of Medicare Advantage—Assessing Current Debates and the Likelihood of Near-Term Reforms
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (350+ words) The American Enterprise Institute, AEI, is a nonpartisan public policy research institute with a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise. Privately administered Medicare Advantage (MA) has long been the subject…...
Medicare Advantage Is Ripe for an Overhaul
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (870+ words) As the Senate eyes alternative or additional cost-saving provisions to those included in the House-passed reconciliation bill, some Republicans are considering reforms to Medicare. That is a promising development because overhauling Medicare Advantage could lower federal costs in ways that…...
Medicare and the Productivity Imperative
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (743+ words) The apparent exclusion of significant Medicare changes from the GOP's planned budget bill means it will likely fall to the CMS to initiate changes. The agency should focus on reforms that deliver sustained productivity improvements both in the program and…...