Medicare now enrolls approximately 65 million beneficiaries at an annual cost of nearly $1 trillion. Within ten years, Medicare will cover an estimated 79 million persons at an annual cost of nearly $2 trillion. The recent Medicare Trustees Report warned that without change, the program faces insolvency. The status quo not only threatens seniors’ continued access to high-quality care, but also guarantees large and growing financial burdens for seniors and taxpayers alike.

The Heritage Foundation has brought together leading experts to outline a vision for strengthening and modernizing the Medicare program. In a recently released book, Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Personal Choice and Market Competition, authors offer policy solutions focused on increasing personal choice, improving price transparency, and unleashing market competition as a means to control costs without compromising services for seniors.

Join Heritage’s Robert Moffit and contributors Doug Holtz-Eakin, President of American Action Forum, John Goodman, President of the Goodman Institute, and Brian Miller, MD, Non-resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, for a discussion on the future of Medicare in ways that rise above the rhetoric of Washington-based beltway battles.

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