Starting this June, America's senior citizens will begin to see the first tangible benefits of the new Medicare law. Medicare beneficiaries will be able to start using new Medicare-approved prescription drug discount cards that are expected to produce discounts of up to 25 percent. Additionally, subsidies of $600 a year will be… Read more
Members of Congress are trying to outdo each other in offering senior citizens a prescription drug benefit under Medicare. The House of Representatives has already enacted the Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002 (H.R. 4954). The House bill would create a new prescription drug benefit as a federal entitlement, estimated… Read more
Members of the Senate are trying to outdo each other in offering senior citizens a prescription drug benefit under Medicare. In this feverish process, many policymakers are drafting badly designed legislative proposals that lack the serious structural reform necessary to improve the Medicare program -- guaranteeing an explosion of new costs… Read more
The debate in Washington over enacting a patients' bill of rights ignores the potential results of that approach: a barrage of lawsuits that will further increase health care costs and compound, not solve, the nation's health care problems. A far more effective means of addressing the health care needs of Americans is to foster a… Read more
The debate in Washington over enacting a patients' bill of rights ignores its potential result: a barrage of lawsuits that will further increase health care costs and compound the nation's health care problems. A far more effective means of addressing the health care needs of Americans is a system that offers defined contributions… Read more
The four co-authors of Why Obamacare is Wrong for America recently addressed The Bloggers Briefing at The Heritage...… Read more
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