Health Affairs

The Impact Of Medicare On Access To And Affordability Of Health Care

Paul D. Jacobs ([email protected]) is a mathematical statistician in the Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in Rockville, Maryland. Medicare ...
Health Affairs

Medicare Advantage For All? Not So Fast

Recently, a number of health policy experts have suggested that the best route to universal coverage might be to expand Medicare Advantage (MA) rather than enact Medicare for All—in other words, a ...
The Heritage Foundation

The Next Step In Medicare Reform

Dated insurance design underlies the traditional Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) program, driving uncontrolled health spending. Innovation in traditional Medicare has failed to control expenditure ...
NPR

Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...
ProPublica

Medicare-for-All Is Not Medicare, and Not Really for All. So What Does It Actually Mean?

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Ritchard Jenkins reached into the black ...
The Heritage Foundation

Time To Fix Doctor’s Medicare Payment Once and for All

Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...
PBS

Column: How the US could afford 'Medicare for all'

Health care is Americans' number-one priority, based on recent polls, so it's no wonder it's been a hot topic in the Democratic primary. Every candidate is offering a plan, ranging from Joe Biden's ...