Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? Tell That to Current Medicare Recipients
Conservatives, including The Heritage Foundation, support reforming Medicare to provide seniors with a defined contribution to apply to the health care plan of their choice. This approach would address...
View ArticleA Blueprint for Medicare Reform
Heritage Policy Analyst Kathryn Nix recently released a paper explaining why the premium support, or defined contribution, model for Medicare reform found in Heritage’s Saving the American Dream is the...
View ArticleLunch with Heritage Online Chat on Obamacare
Click here to join the online chat on Obamacare. We are joined by Health Policy Analyst Kate Nix. She is taking your questions about the future of Obamacare and other policy alternatives that can be...
View ArticleOnline Chat on Obamacare and Medicare Reform
Click here to join us right now for our “Lunch with Heritage” chat with Health Policy Analyst Kate Nix. The Obama Administration recently said that part of Obamacare, the CLASS Act, would no longer go...
View ArticleMedicare Needs a Budget and Structural Reform
Medicare faces a dismal future that could threaten its very existence. In two recent papers, Stuart Butler, Ph.D., and Robert Moffit, Ph.D. of the new Heritage Center for Policy Innovation analyze the...
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Chart of the Week: Medicare Spending Is the Largest Driver of Future Deficits
Medicare is in dire need of reform. This week’s chart illustrates why the entitlement program is the largest driver of long-term runaway deficits. With the country’s population aging and increasingly...
View ArticleMedicare Trustees to America: A Bleak Future Without Real Reform
On September 8, 2011—well after the enactment of Obamacare—President Obama told Congress: “Millions of Americans rely on Medicare in their retirement. And millions more will do so in the future.… But...
View ArticleMedicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform
Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform View more presentations from The Heritage Foundation Heritage’s new chart series, “Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform,” shows that,...
View ArticleOnline Chat on Medicare
How bad is Medicare’s financial condition? What will happen to taxpayers and seniors if the program is not reformed? What solutions have been proposed in Congress? Click here to join us right now for...
View ArticleDebunking Medicare Reform Myths
In a recent paper, Heritage expert Bob Moffit responds to the critics of the premium-support model for Medicare. This type of reform would give seniors a defined government contribution toward the cost...
View ArticleMorning Bell: How Obamacare Robs Medicare and Hurts Seniors
The rhetorical Medicare wars have heated up this week, after President Obama declared in his Saturday radio address that his proposed reforms “won’t touch your guaranteed Medicare benefits. Not by a...
View ArticleMorning Bell: We Can Change America’s Course
Entering the final stretch of the presidential contest, Americans are facing a monumental choice. The American people will decide the direction of government and its role in their lives for the coming...
View ArticleMedicare Reform Debate: What Really Works in Health Care Competition
Recently, economist Paul Krugman derided the premium support plan to reform Medicare: Still, wouldn’t private insurers reduce costs through the magic of the marketplace? No. All, and I mean all, the...
View ArticleMedicare Roundup 9/17: Setting the Record Straight
In recent weeks, liberal politicians, editorialists, and policy analysts have vigorously attacked reforming Medicare based on defined-contribution financing. In fact, this approach to reforming...
View ArticleMedicare Roundup 9/21: Setting the Record Straight
In recent weeks, liberal politicians, editorialists, and policy analysts have vigorously attacked reform of Medicare based on a defined contribution financing. In fact, this approach to reforming...
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Morning Bell: Two Liberal Whoppers on Medicare
A debate that has been fought largely over the airwaves is about to go head-to-head. Medicare reform is a huge part of that debate, and the left—bolstered by the media—has been promoting two huge...
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First Presidential Debate 2012: Top 10 True/False Quiz
During last night’s presidential debate, claims were flying fast and furious. Some of these claims were true, others false. Here are the top 10—see which ones you can guess as either true or false. 1....
View ArticleMedicare Roundup 10/5: Setting the Record Straight
In recent weeks, liberal politicians, editorialists, and policy analysts have vigorously attacked reform of Medicare based on defined-contribution financing. In fact, this approach to reforming...
View ArticleMedicare and Seniors: Answering the $6,400 Question
Opponents to Medicare reform have been making plenty of erroneous claims about Medicare premium support lately, one of the worst being that Representative Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) premium-support model,...
View ArticleMorning Bell: 10 Questions for the Vice Presidential Debate
Tonight’s debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Representative Paul Ryan is supposed to cover both domestic and foreign policy. The Heritage Foundation’s policy experts have submitted 10...
View ArticleKaiser Study on Medicare Assumes Seniors Don’t Like Lower Prices
The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a study that grossly misrepresents the premium-support model of Medicare reform and apparently misunderstands normal market dynamics and the differences...
View ArticleMedicare Myths: A New Quiz Show
You’ve probably heard some scary things about Medicare reform lately. Words like “vouchercare” and an alleged $6,400 cost increase are now permanently etched into liberal talking points — even though...
View ArticleMorning Bell: What IS the Fiscal Cliff?
With just a few weeks left in 2012, all eyes in Washington are on Capitol Hill and the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. As usual, Congress and the President are taking highly contentious issues down to the...
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Saving Medicare: New Legislation from Retiring Congressman Herger
Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA). (Photo: James Berglie/Zuma Press/Newscom) Retiring House Ways and Mean Health Care Subcommittee chairman Wally Herger (R–CA) has introduced the most complete and...
View ArticleMedicare Cuts vs. Medicare Reform
As the discussions over the fiscal cliff continue, the debate over entitlement reform is getting confused. The issue is not only how much savings constitutes reform, but also the underlying policies...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Agrees: It’s Time to Make a Down Payment on Medicare Reform
The editorial board of The Washington Post, no organ of conservative opinion, is absolutely right: “Medicare as we know it is not sustainable,” and the “ultimate solution” is structural reform. Bingo....
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The Case for Medicare Reform
Newscom The panel meets in secret, is controlled by special interests, and helps determine the allocation of nearly $100 billion in federal health care spending. Is it some clandestine panel created by...
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Medicare Reform that Saves Seniors and Taxpayers Money
Newscom America’s finances are in a mess, and Medicare is one of the main reasons. But the good news—just confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office—is that there’s a way to save money for Medicare...
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The Case for Medicare Reform in One Chart
Last week’s release of the annual long-term budget outlook by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) illustrates the need to control federal spending, and spending on health entitlements in particular....
View ArticleA Temporary Medicare SGR “Patch” Is Better Than Permanent Deficits
House Speaker John Boehner (R–OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) have just reached an agreement on a temporary, 12-month Medicare “doc fix” that would block a 24 percent cut in Medicare...
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