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Medicare reform

Matt Gaetz, Kevin McCarthy, and a group of Republican congresspeople argue during the campaign for House speaker

Congress

To Win the Speakership, Kevin McCarthy Had To Promise To Cut Spending. Good.

While some Republicans may have had misguided motivations, a few disrupted McCarthy's campaign in order to enact fiscal restraint. Their colleagues were fine with business as usual.

Veronique de Rugy | 1.12.2023 3:40 PM

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Medicare

Medicare for All Would Be a Terrible Trade

Top-notch health care, delivered fast and for low cost, really isn’t on the government's menu.

J.D. Tuccille | 5.18.2022 7:00 AM

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Health Care

Medicare for All Is Bad Medicine

A better prescription would be to get government entirely out of health care.

J.D. Tuccille | 5.26.2021 7:00 AM

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Reasontv

Stossel: Free-Market Social Security

How to reform social security so that it won't bankrupt us.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 8.14.2018 11:45 AM

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Hillary Clinton

The Fatal Flaw in Hillary Clinton's Medicare Plan

Who will pay for it?

Steve Chapman | 5.16.2016 12:01 AM

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Politics

Jeb Bush Wants to "Phase Out" Medicare. It's Not As Exciting As It Sounds.

Medicare as we know it is unsustainable if we leave it alone.

Peter Suderman | 7.23.2015 3:03 PM

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Politics

Why You Shouldn't Take Mike Huckabee's Presidential Campaign Seriously

Peter Suderman | 5.11.2015 5:06 PM

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Politics

The CBO's New Doc Fix Score Undermines the Case for a Permanent SGR Repeal

The doc fix deal is a bet, but not a very good one.

Peter Suderman | 3.25.2015 3:26 PM

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Politics

Is the New Medicare Doc Fix Plan a Long-Term Debt Increase?

Peter Suderman | 3.19.2015 2:45 PM

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Politics

Why Medicare Will Always Need Fixing

The limits of the emerging doc fix deal.

Peter Suderman | 3.16.2015 3:09 PM

Politics

How to Grow the Supply of Health Care RIGHT NOW!

Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin | 7.1.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Trustees: Medicare Will Be Exhausted by 2026

Two years later than previous estimates

Reason Staff | 5.31.2013 1:37 PM

Politics

Rep. Justin Amash on Debt, Abortion, Immigration & More

Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin | 3.28.2013 4:23 PM

Politics

Grover Norquist on Fiscal Cliff, Tax Pledges, & Being the GOP's "Rasputin"

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 12.19.2012 3:00 PM

Politics

Is it a Revolution to Talk About Medicare Means Testing When Medicare is Already Means Tested?

Peter Suderman | 12.17.2012 9:53 AM

Politics

Why Obamacare's Health Care Cost Controls Won't Work

Our sad, failed history of technocratic cost controls.

Peter Suderman | 12.13.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Dems Oppose Raising Medicare Eligibility Age

That would result in less spending and we can't have that

Reason Staff | 12.12.2012 10:52 PM

Politics

The Doc Fix Economy

If you want to understand the fiscal cliff, you need to first understand the doc fix.

Peter Suderman | 12.11.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

What Sort of Entitlement Reform Would Republicans Trade for Higher Tax Rates?

Peter Suderman | 12.6.2012 4:21 PM

Politics

Will Republicans Bargain Away Entitlement Reform in the Fiscal Cliff Deal?

Peter Suderman | 11.27.2012 12:32 PM

Politics

Medicare Reform: Not So Toxic After All?

Peter Suderman | 10.31.2012 11:28 AM

Politics

Obamacare's Rationing by Another Name

How the Independent Payment Advisory Board gives sweeping powers to an unelected and unconstitutional board of bureaucrats.

Shikha Dalmia | 10.16.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Fighting Over Medicare May Not Be Good Policy, But It Can Be Good Politics

Peter Suderman | 9.28.2012 11:31 AM

Politics

While Attacking GOP on Medicare, Obama Downplays His Own Plans

Somebody has to tackle that beast, eventually

Reason Staff | 9.27.2012 9:24 PM

Policy

Reason-Rupe: Americans Favor Paul Ryan's Medicare Reform Over President Obama's

Emily Ekins | 9.24.2012 11:48 AM

Politics

The Ryan Plan Will Make It Hard for Seniors to Find Doctors? So Will Medicare.

Peter Suderman | 9.19.2012 11:48 AM

Politics

What Kathleen Sebelius Gets Wrong About the Romney/Ryan Medicare Plan: Almost Everything

Peter Suderman | 9.5.2012 3:13 PM

Policy

Will Romney-Ryan "Preserve" and "Strengthen" Medicare? And if They Do, Will They Cut Any Spending Ever?

Nick Gillespie | 8.31.2012 12:34 PM

Politics

Paul Krugman Says All the Evidence Shows Government Controls Health Costs Better than the Private Sector. Here's Some Evidence that Says Otherwise.

Peter Suderman | 8.31.2012 11:00 AM

Politics

End Medicare As We Know It? Ryan's Plan Would Expand On a Medicare Idea That Seniors Know and Like.

Peter Suderman | 8.27.2012 11:37 AM

Politics

Former Obama Budget Director Explains Why It May Be Hard to Restrain Health Spending Under ObamaCare

Peter Suderman | 8.21.2012 12:05 PM

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