Medicare is facing a fiscal calamity: how can the growth of Medicare spending be limited while ensuring that beneficiaries continue to have access to affordable health care?

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Scott Gottlieb, MD a former senior adviser to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) warns that a new ruling by CMS will force people to get open-heart surgeries that might have been avoidable.

The Financial Alignment Initiative has set ambitious time frames for making sweeping changes in the care offered to dual eligibles.  Will dual eligibles be able to obtain the services they need once they are shifted into these new health plans? Will savings come at the expense of patient care, or will this approach lead to real efficiencies in delivering care?

Today, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) health expert and practicing physician Scott Gottlieb, MD explained in testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee and in an article on American.com, AEI's online journal, the harmful impact that the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) will have on Medicare beneficiaries and health care providers.

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

At this AEI event, panelists will comment on the CDC's future with vaccines, drawing from experiences in public health, policy, and industry.

At this AEI event, Richard Foster, Medicare's chief actuary, will discuss the findings of this year's Medicare trustees report.

At this AEI event experts discussed the findings and implications of the 2010 Medicare Trustees Report.