Medicare

• How Medicare's Payment System Discourages Quality and Innovation, Peter Suderman, May 25, 2012
• Peter Orszag's Secret Service Recovery Plan: "Stimulate Now," Pay Later, Nick Gillespie, May 23, 2012
• "Happy Mother's Day from The Affordable Care Act", Scott Shackford, May 13, 2012
• Government Encourages Hospital Consolidation, Sues Hospitals for Consolidation, Peter Suderman, May 11, 2012
• ObamaCare: Temporary Rate Hikes Forever, Peter Suderman, May 10, 2012
• Medicare's Messed Up Payment System, Peter Suderman, May 9, 2012
• How ObamaCare Double Counts Its Medicare Savings, Peter Suderman, May 3, 2012
• Is the Health Care Cost Curve Bending?, Peter Suderman, May 1, 2012
• Conservatives ♥ Big Government Too, Shikha Dalmia, April 29, 2012
• The Cost Control That ObamaCare Doesn't Try, Peter Suderman, April 27, 2012
• Medicare's Chief Actuary: Sorry, ObamaCare's Medicare Reforms Probably Aren't Viable in the Long Term, Peter Suderman, April 23, 2012
• Obama Administration Opposes Medicare Overpayments to Private Insurers, Except When It Doesn’t, Peter Suderman, April 23, 2012
• Medicare Anti-Fraud Pilot Program Saves $200 Million. Only $47.8 Billion In Improper Payments to Go., Peter Suderman, April 19, 2012
• Why You Shouldn't Trust Medicare Trust Fund Accounting, Peter Suderman, April 11, 2012
• Medicare Pay For Performance Pilot Program Fails to Reduce Mortality, Peter Suderman, March 29, 2012
• Reason-Rupe: Majority of Americans Open To Medicare Reform, Emily Ekins, March 27, 2012
• Reason-Rupe: Majority of Americans Open To Medicare Reform, Emily Ekins, March 27, 2012
• Medicare Under Paul Ryan's Budget Plan, Peter Suderman, March 20, 2012
• Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, and Mike Lee's Medicare Plan is a Challenge to Both Sides of the Health Care Debate, Peter Suderman, March 16, 2012
• Senators Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, Mike Lee Unveil Plan That Balances Budget in Five Years and "fixes Medicare in its entirety", Matt Welch, March 15, 2012
• Medicare’s Public Reporting Initiative Fails to Reduce Mortality, Peter Suderman, March 6, 2012
• Geithner Admits Obama Budget Leaves America With "Unsustainable" Entitlement Commitments, Peter Suderman, February 16, 2012
• Medicare Payment "Cuts" In New White House Budget Don't Cover the Cost of Medicare Payment Increases, Peter Suderman, February 14, 2012
• Sen. Jon Kyl: “What I’m proposing is using one budgetary gimmick to pay for another.”, Peter Suderman, February 7, 2012
• Double Your Spending, Double Your Fun, Peter Suderman, February 1, 2012
• Why Geezers Are the True Enemy of the Occupy Movement, Nick Gillespie & Joshua Swain, January 30, 2012
• "Either Mr. Romney isn't smart enough to realize that these two lines of attack are inconsistent, or he does realize they are inconsistent and is cynical enough to think that voters aren't smart enough to realize they are inconsistent.", Matt Welch, January 20, 2012
• ObamaCare's Imaginary Medicare Savings, Peter Suderman, January 19, 2012
• In Which We Learn That the Government's Innovative Health Policy Reforms Don't Always Work, Peter Suderman, January 18, 2012
• 3 Reasons Why We Should Raise Medicare's Eligibility Age, Peter Suderman, January 11, 2012
• Why Not Abolish Payroll Taxes Altogether Instead of Screwing Around With a Short-Term, Low-Percentage Cut?, Nick Gillespie, December 21, 2011
• Reason Writers on TV: Peter Suderman Talks Medicare Payment Follies on Stossel, December 19, 2011
• The Doc Fix: A Lesson in How Government Doesn't Work, Peter Suderman, December 16, 2011
• Sen. Ron Wyden: My Medicare Compromise With Paul Ryan Makes Government-Run Medicare Permanent, Peter Suderman, December 15, 2011
• Paul Ryan’s Medicare Compromise, Peter Suderman, December 15, 2011
• Biggest Handouts to 1 Percent Are Social Security and Medicare, Nick Gillespie, December 12, 2011
• Gingrich's 'Right-Wing Social Engineering', Jacob Sullum, November 21, 2011
• NYT Defines Obamacare Success: Fewer Options, but Better Coordinated, Tim Cavanaugh, November 15, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Old People Displacing Poor People at the Federal Trough, November 3, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town - The Key to Entitlement Reform, October 11, 2011
• Obama Ignores the Doc Fix, Again, Peter Suderman, September 19, 2011
• Mitt Romney Believes in America, Provides 150-Page PDF to Prove It, Peter Suderman, September 7, 2011
• Exploring Real Attitudes Toward Entitlement Reform, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• Americans Are Open to Reforming Social Security and Medicare, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• Americans Are Open to Reforming Social Security and Medicare, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• The Public Is Conflicted Over Where to Place Responsibility for Retirement Savings, Emily Ekins, August 30, 2011
• The Public Is Conflicted Over Where to Place Responsibility for Retirement Savings, August 30, 2011
• Reason-Rupe Poll: 57 Percent of Americans Say Spending Cuts Will Help the Economy, Emily Ekins, August 30, 2011
• Rick Perry's Underwhelming Radicalism, Peter Suderman, August 15, 2011
• If Medicare’s Beneficiaries Won’t Notice Reduced Spending, Then Why Is That Money Being Spent In the First Place?, Peter Suderman, August 1, 2011
• Heading Off the Budgepocalypse, Peter Suderman, July 27, 2011
• In Debt Talks, Democrats Want Everything On the Table...Except the Entitlements They've Taken Off the Table, Peter Suderman, July 20, 2011
• Ron Paul Doesn't Support the House GOP's Cut, Cap, and Balance Plan, Peter Suderman, July 19, 2011
• Fogies Forbid Anyone to Think About Changing Medicare, Not Even for the Young'uns, Katherine Mangu-Ward, June 27, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Least Screwy Health Care Option for Seniors, June 10, 2011
• Congress Already Working To Dismantle ObamaCare’s Medicare Cost-Control Board, Peter Suderman, June 8, 2011
• Does Tim Pawlenty Pass His Own “Google Test?”, Peter Suderman, June 8, 2011
• Memo to Bill Clinton: Democrats Aren't Allowed to Talk About Reforming Medicare!, Peter Suderman, May 27, 2011
• Republicans Didn't Make the Case for Medicare Reform, Peter Suderman, May 25, 2011
• Reason Writers On TV: Peter Suderman Talks Stimulus Spending, Medicare Politics on Freedom Watch, May 25, 2011
• Sebelius Touts Plan to Gut Health Care Cost Control Mechanism, Peter Suderman, May 25, 2011
• The RyanCare Backlash, Peter Suderman, May 24, 2011
• Medicare Trust Funding Accounting: Double Your Fiscal Trouble, Peter Suderman, May 20, 2011
• Gingrich, the Professor, Lashes Out at the 'Literati' Who Are Bent on Destroying Him, Jacob Sullum, May 18, 2011
• Gingrich Apologizes for Being a Blowhard but Not for Being a Weasel, Jacob Sullum, May 18, 2011
• Pay Special Attention to the Medicare Projections in the Missing Document, Jacob Sullum, May 17, 2011
• Medicare's Chief Actuary: Don't Trust the Medicare Trustees, Peter Suderman, May 16, 2011
• Putting the "Fun" Back in "Unfunded Liability", Peter Suderman, May 13, 2011
• Medicare's Finances: Now Even More Broken, Peter Suderman, May 13, 2011
• Ending Entitlements for Billionaires: Harder Than You Might Think!, Peter Suderman, May 11, 2011