As many have noted, but the ACA President’s budget and the latest House Budget held Medicare growth to GDP+0.5%. If you need help, that’s the same
Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan have been adamant that their Medicare proposals won’t affect people over 55. That may be true. But their Medicaid proposals
TIE doesn’t have a monopoly on Medicaid coverage. As I said last night, there are others out there beating the drums as well. Sarah Kliff
The solution offered by Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan to fix Medicaid is block granting. To summarize: The fiscal-year 2013 budget recently passed by the
In all the excitement of yesterday and today, I neglected to mention that I have a new post on the public health good of vaccines
So you want to cut Medicaid in your state. Or maybe you have to. You know you’re already under-reimbursing doctors. So you do what lots
Some people like to think that Medicaid spending (and all welfare spending) goes towards people who could avoid getting it. But very little of it
I’m sure people are going to start rolling out the old “Medicaid is worse than being uninsured” line, so here is an innoculation: Let’s start
UPDATE: Added that cool Google jpeg. President Clinton gave me the opening last night, and I’m going to take it. I’m just thrilled that someone
Many of my more conservative counterparts like to point to Switzerland as an example of a system they would favor more. It’s a private-insurance system
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