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Disabled Americans Facing Ruinous Costs of Long-Term Care Got No New Answers from a Blue-Ribbon Federal Commission Last Week. Where Do We Go from Here?

September 25, 2013, Barbara J. Gage, Judith Tobin and Darshak Sanghavi

Budget Priorities: Funding Shortfalls for Social Security and Medicare Not All That Dire

September 25, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Health Insurance Coverage Rises in 2012, Driven by Increase in Medicare Enrollment

September 17, 2013, Gary Burtless

Will Health Insurance In The World Of Obamacare Be Affordable? It Depends Whom You Ask

September 12, 2013, S. Lawrence Kocot

Taking Care of the High Cost, Long-Term Care Populations Under Medicare

August 1, 2013, Barbara J. Gage

Containing Health Care Costs: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

July 30, 2013, Kavita Patel

Taking Stock Of Initial Year One Results For Pioneer ACOs

July 25, 2013, Kavita Patel and Steven Lieberman

Why Reform Medicare? The President's and Other Bipartisan Proposals to Reform Medicare

May 21, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin

Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care the Right Way—Through Better, More Person-Centered Care

May 9, 2013, Mark B. McClellan

Coverage With Evidence Development for Medicare Beneficiaries

May 2013, Gregory W. Daniel, Erin K. Rubens and Mark B. McClellan

Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform

April 29, 2013

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Reforming Medicare: Fiscal Challenges and Policy Solutions

April 22, 2013

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How to Build a Better Health-care System

April 18, 2013, Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Pete V. Domenici and Alice M. Rivlin

Payments to Elders Are Harming Our Future

March 8, 2013, Harry J. Holzer and Isabel V. Sawhill

Restructuring Cost Sharing and Supplemental Insurance for Medicare

February 26, 2013, Jonathan Gruber

Transitioning to Bundled Payments in Medicare

February 26, 2013, Michael Chernew and Dana Goldman

15 Ideas for Smart Deficit Reduction

February 20, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

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Where Is the Urgency on the Debt Ceiling?

January 9, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Progressives and the Safety Net

Fall 2012, Henry J. Aaron

Right now in this political campaign, both sides are trying to scare people by saying this other guy will destroy Medicare. No one is going to destroy Medicare.

October 10, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin, MarketWatch

After the 2012 Election, Is a Return to Sanity Possible?

October 2, 2012, Henry J. Aaron

Are Voters Ready to Make the Tough Fiscal Choices?

September 18, 2012, Isabel V. Sawhill

The Long Term Is Now: Medicare, Medicaid, and the Financing of Long-Term Care

September 11, 2012, William A. Galston

The Great Medicare Compromise

August 29, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin

Why the Medicare Fight Matters to Americans Over 55

August 20, 2012, Henry J. Aaron