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

Medicare is a social insurance program that has the unfortunate characteristics to be expected from any centrally controlled provision of services. We do indeed have a system-wide problem, but if we expect to solve it we have to start with Medicare.

Demographic, economic, and political forces have placed unprecedented demands on Medicare that cannot be met without major program reform. Policies are needed to change the fundamental incentives that drive provider and patient behavior in Medicare--and ultimately the entire health sector.

Why does Iran consider Afghanistan so important? What are Iran's strategic aims in Afghanistan?

Rather than stemming from irrationality, fear, or hatred, racism developed in Europe, prior to slavery, as part of a rational and scientific project to understand the world.