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?

Please join AEI for a series of policy discussions on the Hill to mark the week of the State of the Union address. These discussions will frame the many challenges we face at home and abroad in 2012 while also offering solutions. Food will be provided at each of the events on the Hill, so please RSVP to guarantee your meal.  

In this volume, the authors address several weaknesses and concerns that should be considered before health care reformers redesign the U.S. system on a foreign model.

This collection of essays provides an indication of the range and depth of AEI’s work in health care reform and pharmaceutical policy.

In the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (better known as ObamaCare), the following American Enterprise Institute (AEI) health policy scholars are available to comment.

Medicaid accounted for 14.8 percent of the $2.1 trillion in total health spending in 2006 and 7 percent of the federal budget in 2007. In the next ten years, Medicaid expenditures are projected to grow at a rate of 7.9 percent per year, a rate that exceeds the growth of...

Health insurers, hospitals, doctors, and the government are fighting each other to gain control over the $2 trillion health-care system, and patients could be the losers in this battle for power and profit. In her new book, Who Killed Health Care? (McGraw-Hill, June 2007), Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger...

Panelists examined the Medicaid program, how it functions, how it ought to be reformed, and how reform legislation might be enacted.