The Affordable Care Act mandates changes in payment policies for Medicare postacute care services intended to contain spending in the long run and help ensure the program’s financial sustainability.
All the recent debate about the future of Medicare is missing a fundamental truth: the odds of any major changes to Medicare are next to zero, no matter who wins this November.
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics.
In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid.
One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth.
The Affordable Care Act phases out the Medicare Part D coverage gap over the next decade; however, beneficiaries will continue to face substantial cost-sharing even after 2020.
The population of Asia is growing both larger and older.
The proposed reductions in the Pentagon’s budget have a lot of people worried that smaller will mean weaker.
Background: Employers are increasingly offering high-deductible health insurance plans with associated health savings accounts (HSAs), but there is limited information on account contributions or effe
The United States is in the throes of the most serious recession in post-war history. Despite improving employment numbers, the official unemployment rate still exceeded 8% in March 2012.
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