Medicare Part D — delivering prescription drugs to seniors — has been a success since President Bush introduced it. And the Obama administration plans to threaten that achievement.

President Barack Obama and key congressional Democrats want a better deal on prescription drugs sold to seniors. But if they get it, seniors will pay billions of dollars more for their medicines.

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.

Rep. Paul Ryan claims that huge savings under Medicare's Part D prescription drug program proves that competition will work for the full program. His critics argue that the savings have nothing to do with competition. As happens so often in Washington, both sides are focusing on the wrong issue.

It's highly unusual in a presidential debate for two Republican candidates -- the two leading in current national polls -- to heap praise on a liberal Democratic senator. But in the Fox News debate in Sioux City Thursday night both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had very good words to say for Oregon's Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.

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.

Should the government negotiate the prices of pharmaceuticals covered by the new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit? The incoming Democratic leadership in Congress has made Medicare price negotiation a top policy priority, but controversy rages over precisely what that might entail and whether it would reduce drug costs in...

While Republicans have a lot of problems to contend with as the elections approach, it appears that the new prescription drug benefit is not one of them.