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By Refusing to Implement the Medicaid Expansion Republican Governors May Be Making the Republican Block Grant Proposals Impractical

Posted by | 2:10 PM
Paul Ryan's Medicaid block grant proposals have always made sense to me. Give the states their Medicaid allotment and real flexibility o...

"Five Myths About Medicare"

Posted by | 12:02 PM
I recommend you read John Rother's recent op-ed in the Washington Post, "Five Myths About Medicare."John argues that each of t...

Medicare Advantage Premiums Drop an Average of 7% and Enrollment up 10%—That Must Make Republicans Just Want to Cry

Posted by | 11:00 AM
Medicare Advantage would appear to be a fantastic success—senior premiums are dropping and enrollment is increasing.Listening to Health and ...

Paul Ryan and Ron Wyden Blow the Medicare Reform Debate Wide Open!

Posted by | 8:10 PM
House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) have embraced a Medicare reform plan that in concept borrows heavily from o...

The Super Committee Failure—What’s Next?

Posted by | 2:13 PM
The stock market today was shocked, simply shocked, that the Super Committee didn’t come up with a debt deal.I don’t know why. Republicans c...

The Ryan Health Care Proposals—Not Your Congressman’s Health Plan

Posted by | 2:39 PM
Update: The New Wyden-Ryan Plan - Paul Ryan and Ron Wyden Blow the Medicare Reform Debate Wide Open! In a speech at the Hoover Institution t...

The Health Leadership Council Medicare Proposal: Too Much Responsibility on Beneficiaries and Not Enough on Providers

Posted by | 8:22 AM
The Health Leadership Council (HLC), a coalition of CEOs from many of the leading health care companies, has created a list of Medicare refo...

Inconvenient Facts for Both Republicans and Democrats—Neither Side’s Health Care Proposals Are Supported By Past Performance

Posted by | 6:30 AM
I call your attention to Ezra Klein’s column in the Washington Post this morning.In it he cites data that has been out there for a long time...

Earth to Republicans: You Are In Big Political Trouble Over the Ryan Medicare Plan

Posted by | 8:06 AM
Update: The Wyden-Ryan Medicare Plan - Paul Ryan and Ron Wyden Blow the Medicare Reform Debate Wide Open! It should now be clear to Republic...

Neither the Republicans Nor the Democrats Want to Face the Provider Cost Problem But Both Want to Dump the Problem on the Consumer

Posted by | 10:01 PM
A key piece of Paul Ryan’s deficit reduction plan is to change Medicare as we know it. It appears his bold Medicare premium support proposal...

The Budget Fight: It Will Be A Long Hot Summer, and Fall, and Winter…

Posted by | 9:59 AM
The good news is that Democrats and Republicans are finally seriously engaged over the country’s fiscal crisis.And, each side is presenting ...

Defined Contribution Health Care—The Conservatives' Silver Bullet

Posted by | 2:00 AM
Conservatives are in a full court press these days telling us the answer to America’s out-of-control health care costs—and our fiscal crisis...