Every year about 5 percent of Medicare enrollees die. And before they die, Medicare spends a great deal of money on them.
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Every year about 5 percent of Medicare enrollees die. And before they die, Medicare spends a great deal of money on them.
It’s been more than 20 years since Hillary Clinton undertook a failing effort to reform the entire health care system.
Let’s say a drug has been shown to extend the life of terminally ill patients by months or even years. How much should we pay for it? Is there such a thing as a drug’s being too expensive? If we say “yes,” aren’t we putting a price on what a life is worth?
Americans like to think that our health care system is very different from “socialized medicine” in Canada. In fact, the two health care systems are far more similar than they are different.
Jeb Bush has been taking a beating lately – from the talking heads on TV and radio, from some of his own backers and from the mainstream media.
The Obama administration claims that the premium increases in the (Obamacare) health insurance exchanges are averaging 7.5 percent across the country.
Thomas Saving, Andrew Rettenmaier and Liqun Liu have produced a first-of-its kind calculation of the value of Social Security to young people in light of the political uncertainty about its future.
Our health care system is a complex system. As I explained in Priceless, there is no known, reliable model of how it works.
The news isn’t good for the ObamaCare exchanges. For the coming year expect higher premiums, higher deductibles, narrower networks and an overall market that has stopped growing.
Now that Paul Ryan is the presumptive new leader of the House of Representatives, what happens next?