Economic Studies

Obesity, Prevention, and Health Care Costs

May 4, 2012, Ross A. Hammond

A Bipartisan Approach to Reforming Medicare

April 27, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin

The Current State of Medicare

April 27, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

Getting Drugs to the Marketplace Faster

April 20, 2012, Mark B. McClellan and Ellen Sigal

Is the Health Care Mandate a Tax?

April 13, 2012, Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

Why Health Care Isn’t Broccoli—Some Basic Economics

April 2, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

The Final Day of Legal Arguments over the Health Care Law

March 28, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

Paul Ryan: The Most Daring Budget Hawk of His Generation

March 27, 2012, Ron Haskins

The Second Day of the Supreme Court’s Hearing on the Health Care Law

March 27, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

Scrapping Obamacare Would Be a Prescription for Health Care Chaos

March 27, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

What I Saw at the Supreme Court’s Hearing on the Health Care Law

March 26, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

Health Care Is a Necessary Reform

March 20, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin and Benjamin Wittes

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Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform

March 19, 2012, Jonathan T. Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

Another Disappointing Federal Budget

February 14, 2012, Ron Haskins

Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social-Security-Taxable Wages

February 10, 2012, Gary Burtless and Sveta Milusheva

Why Now Is Not the Time for Medicare Premium Support

January 25, 2012, Henry J. Aaron and Austin B. Frakt

Addressing the Budget Deficit: The Next President Must Solve the U.S. Deficit Crisis

January 19, 2012, Ron Haskins

Sizing Up the Obama Administration's Defense of the Health Reform Law

January 9, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

The Economics of Medicare

December 30, 2011, Henry J. Aaron

@ Brookings Podcast: Automatic Spending Cuts and Programs for the Poor

December 30, 2011, Ron Haskins

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Evaluating Community-Based Reforms in Care for Chronic Conditions: A Multi-Payer Template for Information Technology Initiatives

December 29, 2011, Cary Sennett, MD, PhD, Karen Matsuoka, DPhil, MPhil , S. Lawrence Kocot, Mark B. McClellan and Molly Chidester

Medicare Premium Support: A Primer

December 16, 2011, Henry J. Aaron, James C. Capretta, Pete Domenici, Ron Haskins and Alice M. Rivlin

The Case Against Premium Support for Medicare

December 16, 2011, Henry J. Aaron, Judy Feder and Paul Van de Water

Uncomfortably Numb: The Dark Side of Inappropriate Drug Use in Nursing Homes

December 15, 2011, S. Lawrence Kocot

Comments on the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Special Committee on Aging

December 8, 2011, Henry J. Aaron