This careful analysis of Medicare and the FEHBP is an invaluable guide for policymakers considering major health reforms while juggling the twin problems of runaway health care spending and looming Medicare insolvency.

Walton Francis explains what you need to know about the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) as Senate Democrats debate an alternative to the public option that would ostensibly be modeled on the FEHBP.

There have been repeated warnings from across the political spectrum that Medicare spending will bankrupt the country unless it is curbed. AEI's Joseph Antos and a panel of experts will discuss what it would take to overcome political and technical roadblocks to necessary action.

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

What reforms will revive the FEHBP and improve Medicare?

An expert panel will discuss the impact of proposals to restructure FEHBP and what they imply for both the survival of the program and the broader health system under the president’s health care reform.

In Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge: Lessons from the FEHBP, noted health insurance expert Walton Francis identifies key lessons from that experience, arguing not only that both Medicare and the FEHBP can be improved, but also that each program contains lessons--both positive and negative--for national health care reform today.

Congress has an unprecedented opportunity to bring better benefits (including prescription drugs), higher quality, and more cost-effective care to Medicare beneficiaries. But that depends on whether leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives can find politically acceptable solutions that provide a new vision for an old program....