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?

Monday's release of the annual Medicare Trustees' report seems on the face of things to be a simple exercise in dry accounting – trust fund x will run out of money in year y.  In fact, it's much more than that.  It's an annual reminder that we are...

Reform of Medicare is inevitable given the current debt limit debate. Democrats introduced a plan to reduce spending on Medicare Part D based on the presumption that manufacturers make extraordinary profits from the government. This means premiums for seniors and government spending on Medicare will likely increase, offsetting any savings.

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

The latest installment of ObamaCare is a scheme that’s uprooting the elderly poor and disabled who get care under Medicare and herding many into state-run Medicaid plans.

Paul Krugman says the opponents of the Affordable Care Act are liars and repeats claims that are a flagrant falsehoods in 2012.

How much will Obamacare -- call it the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act if you like -- cost over the next 10 years? More than you've been led to believe, reports Charles Blahous of George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

Current pension accounting rules significantly understate state pension plan liabilities and overstate their funding health. Using accurate accounting, Washington’s combined plans would face a $50.6 billion short fall. By private pension standards Washington’s pension system would be considered endangered.