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What’s So Scary About Medicare Reform?

One of the biggest questions surrounding Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act concerns the fate of Medicare. Earlier this month, GOP lawmakers were reportedly considering reforms aimed at reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the entitlement as a way to deliver savings for taxpayers. But as ...
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Don’t believe the CBO’s spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

In a recent letter to top Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office claimed that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would kick millions of people off their health insurance. That warning is misleading. Millions of people are improperly enrolled in Medicaid and taxpayer-subsidized plans through Obamacare’s exchanges. Republicans are rightly ...
Health Care

New Study: Medicare’s Price Controls Are Fueling America’s Growing Doctor Shortage

The Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation today released a new issue brief warning that continued federal underpayment of doctors is fueling a looming healthcare crisis by accelerating the nation’s physician shortage and undermining access to care. Written by PRI senior fellow in business and economics and ...
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The Private Sector Is Setting The PACE For Managed Care

Rising demand for long-term care is inevitable as more and more baby boomers retire. Meeting this demand will be a challenge. Recent evidence from the PACE program demonstrates that for-profit care providers can help meet this growing demand, but only if the regulatory environment allows it. Read the op-ed here.
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Big savings can be found in improper Medicare spending

Republicans are searching for ways to eliminate “fraud, waste, and abuse” in Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement created to provide health coverage for low-income, pregnant, homeless, and disabled people. It’s long past time. According to a new report from the Paragon Health Institute’s Brian Blase and the Economic Policy Innovation Center’s ...
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Medicare fraud should be next in line for DOGE

The Department of Government Efficiency’s crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse is off to a fast start. But as an engine of government savings, DOGE still has substantial untapped potential. That’s because it hasn’t yet addressed the fraud crippling one of the federal government’s largest programs: Medicare. In fiscal year ...
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Time to Administer DOGE to Medicare, Medicaid

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is setting its sights on fraud and abuse within Medicare and Medicaid. It’s about time. The two government programs have been cesspools of malfeasance, incompetence, and duplicity for too long. And the cost of all this corruption and waste has grown at a ...
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Want To Spend Less On Health Care? Get Your Doctor A Raise

Do you think your doctor deserves a raise? The conventional wisdom holds that doctors are well paid. But the fact is that physician pay has fallen in real terms in recent years—particularly for those who treat Medicare beneficiaries. Falling reimbursement is just one of the challenges medical practices face today. ...
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Creative Counting Can’t Fix The Inflation Reduction Act’s Flaws

Just three days before President Biden left office, his appointees tried to tie incoming Trump staffers’ hands on a health policy decision that affects millions of Americans and tens of billions in federal spending. On January 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new list of 15 ...
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Republicans can make Medicaid work again

The incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress are looking to rein in Medicaid, the health insurance entitlement that consumed a record 10% of the federal budget in 2023 despite delivering substandard care to its 79.4 million enrollees. Democrats are lining up to denounce the GOP’s plans, which they claim will ...
Commentary

What’s So Scary About Medicare Reform?

One of the biggest questions surrounding Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act concerns the fate of Medicare. Earlier this month, GOP lawmakers were reportedly considering reforms aimed at reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the entitlement as a way to deliver savings for taxpayers. But as ...
Commentary

Don’t believe the CBO’s spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

In a recent letter to top Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office claimed that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would kick millions of people off their health insurance. That warning is misleading. Millions of people are improperly enrolled in Medicaid and taxpayer-subsidized plans through Obamacare’s exchanges. Republicans are rightly ...
Health Care

New Study: Medicare’s Price Controls Are Fueling America’s Growing Doctor Shortage

The Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation today released a new issue brief warning that continued federal underpayment of doctors is fueling a looming healthcare crisis by accelerating the nation’s physician shortage and undermining access to care. Written by PRI senior fellow in business and economics and ...
Commentary

The Private Sector Is Setting The PACE For Managed Care

Rising demand for long-term care is inevitable as more and more baby boomers retire. Meeting this demand will be a challenge. Recent evidence from the PACE program demonstrates that for-profit care providers can help meet this growing demand, but only if the regulatory environment allows it. Read the op-ed here.
Commentary

Big savings can be found in improper Medicare spending

Republicans are searching for ways to eliminate “fraud, waste, and abuse” in Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement created to provide health coverage for low-income, pregnant, homeless, and disabled people. It’s long past time. According to a new report from the Paragon Health Institute’s Brian Blase and the Economic Policy Innovation Center’s ...
Commentary

Medicare fraud should be next in line for DOGE

The Department of Government Efficiency’s crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse is off to a fast start. But as an engine of government savings, DOGE still has substantial untapped potential. That’s because it hasn’t yet addressed the fraud crippling one of the federal government’s largest programs: Medicare. In fiscal year ...
Commentary

Time to Administer DOGE to Medicare, Medicaid

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is setting its sights on fraud and abuse within Medicare and Medicaid. It’s about time. The two government programs have been cesspools of malfeasance, incompetence, and duplicity for too long. And the cost of all this corruption and waste has grown at a ...
Commentary

Want To Spend Less On Health Care? Get Your Doctor A Raise

Do you think your doctor deserves a raise? The conventional wisdom holds that doctors are well paid. But the fact is that physician pay has fallen in real terms in recent years—particularly for those who treat Medicare beneficiaries. Falling reimbursement is just one of the challenges medical practices face today. ...
Commentary

Creative Counting Can’t Fix The Inflation Reduction Act’s Flaws

Just three days before President Biden left office, his appointees tried to tie incoming Trump staffers’ hands on a health policy decision that affects millions of Americans and tens of billions in federal spending. On January 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new list of 15 ...
Commentary

Republicans can make Medicaid work again

The incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress are looking to rein in Medicaid, the health insurance entitlement that consumed a record 10% of the federal budget in 2023 despite delivering substandard care to its 79.4 million enrollees. Democrats are lining up to denounce the GOP’s plans, which they claim will ...
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