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?

If the economic incentives that drive spending growth are not addressed, any savings gained through Barack Obama's proposed reforms will disappear.

Scholarsassess the Medicare Advantage plans, howthey differ from traditional Medicare, how well they meet beneficiaries' needs, and how they affect competition.

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

A distinguished panel of experts, including current and past members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and two former CMS administrators, will debate whether "past is prologue" in Medicare's latest efforts to save itself--and the health system.

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

What reforms will revive the FEHBP and improve Medicare?

Will Medicare be there for younger generations when they turn sixty-five? Despite the good news that the Part D drug benefit is more popular and less expensive than originally projected, Medicare financing is under growing pressure as increasing numbers of beneficiaries use more--and more expensive--care. The Medicare trustees sounded a...