Medicare - More Policy Analyses and Research
2010
Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicare: A Primer 2010 (April 2010) 2009 CTJ: Health Care Reform Financing Options: Make the Medicare Tax a More Progressive Tax that Wealthy Investors Pay Just Like Everyone Else (7/7/09) (State-by-State Figures in Appendix) Kaiser Family Foundation: Health Care on a Budget: an Analysis of Spending by Medicare Households (February 2009) Kaiser Family Foundation: Revisiting 'Skin in the Game' Among Medicare Beneficiaries: an Updated Analysis of the Increasing Financial Burden of Health Care Spending from 1997 to 2005 (February 2009)
2008 Families: Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (November 2008)
2007
CBPP: House Health Legislation Would Curb Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, While Aiding Medicare Beneficiaries Overall (8/8/07) Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicare Part D Plan Characteristics, 2007
2006
Kaiser Family Foundation: The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Fact Sheet (November 2006) The Commonwealth Fund: The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans (November 2006) Families USA: Transitional Prescription Drug Benefits End April 1 (3/29/06) CBPP: President and Senate Budget Committee Embrace Misguided "45 Percent Trigger" (3/13/06) Americans United: Real Medicare RX Now (3/10/06) Institute for America's Future: The Excess Cost of the Medicare Drug Benefit (2/27/06) CEPR: The Savings form an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (January 2006)
2005
Families USA: Drug Prices - Rx Drug Plan Prices Higher than Prices Negotiated by Veteran's Affairs (12/21/05) CBPP: Administration Ignores MEDPAC Findings in Threatening to Veto Senate Medicare Provision (11/4/05) Families USA: Getting the Best Price: Lessons from the Medicare Discount Card (9/27/05) CBPP: Entitlement Caps: Ill-Advised Inequitable Approach to Fiscal Policy (3/2/05) CTJ: Senate Votes to Take Money from Medicare to Increase Social Security for the Wealthy (3/23/05)
2004
CBPP: 75 Year Pay-Go Proposal Affects Medicare, SSI, Social Security (6/11/04) NCPSSM: The New Medicare Law - A Bad Deal for Seniors (May 2004) CBC: The Impact of Medicare Reform on African Americans (January 2004)
2003
CBPP: The Troubling Medicare Legislation (12/8/03) FamiliesUSA: Problems With the Low Income Provisions in Compromise Rx Drug Plan (11/18/03) CBPP: Six Million Excluded from Rx Drug Bill Are Disproportionately Minority (9/9/03) CBPP: 1.7 Million in Rural America Denied Drug Benefits Under the Senate Medicare Bill (9/9/03) => Back to Medicare Main Page
