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Health Care
While Social Security received considerably more attention in recent years, Medicare is actually a much larger problem. Medicare is growing at a faster rate and has an unfunded liability six times the size of Social Security. The program is on a spending path that is impossible to sustain. It must deal not only with the demographic pressures Social Security faces, but also the soaring cost of medical care. And there are other government programs that help the elderly that taxpayers must fund: Parts of Medicaid, benefits paid by the Veterans Administration and so forth.
Key Research
- Study #313 - Medicare Spending Across the Map
- Brief Analysis #616 - Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2008
- Study #306 - A Medicare Reform Proposal Everyone Can Love: Finding Common Ground among Medicare Reformers
- Study #299 - Medicare: Past, Present and Future
- Study #297 - The Rising Burden of Health Spending on Seniors
- Journal of Legal Medicine - Applying the "Do No Harm" Principle to Health Policy - John C. Goodman, Ph.D.
- Health Affairs - Employer-Sponsored, Personal, And Portable Health Insurance - John C. Goodman, Ph.D.
- Study #293 - Shopping for Drugs: 2007
- Study #288 - Opportunities for State Medicaid Reform
- Study #283 - Ten Steps to Reforming Baby Boomer Retirement
- Study #276 - Consumer Driven Health Care: The Changing Role of the Patient
- Defined Contributions as an Option in Medicare