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?

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. 

American hospitals have undergone substantial changes in the last quarter-century due to changes in medical technology, changes in payment policies by Medicare and other third-party payers, and new forms of competition from outpatient care and specialty hospitals. Still, the future of the hospital sector is a major issue in all...

For nearly a half century, women working in health services outside of hospitals have routinely experienced higher unemployment than their counterparts in the rest of the civilian workforce—typically by two to three percentage points.

The New York Times today reports rising concerns that the role of healthcare in fueling economic growth may be in jeopardy due to cuts contemplated in Medicare and Medicaid. This is old news for those who read my post a month ago. But today I want to focus on the implications of these trends for individual healthcare workers.

“Americans spend too much on health care.” “We have worse health outcomes than our European counterparts.” Talking points such as these helped drive President Obama’s controversial and sweeping health care reform into law two years ago. But are they accurate?

What's on the horizon for taxes? AEI's Aparna Mathur weighs in with the House Small Business Committee.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health