Health Care

The current volume-based reimbursement that pervades America’s health care system encourages more, not better, care and is driving up spending at an...

In an effort to help address the unsustainable growth of our health care programs, a few legislators are reaching across the aisle in an effort to...

Tomorrow, September 12, CRFB's Moment of Truth Project and the National Coalition on Health Care will host a briefing on Medicare delivery system and...

Today, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and former Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) sent a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp (R-MI) that...

Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual survey on health costs, prompting a wide range of reactions from " Health Care Costs Rise...

The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...

Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride has created an animated chart showing America's age distribution evolve, as far back as 1900 to the current day...

In yesterday's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson explores the unsolved "health spending mystery," whether the recent slowdown in health care spending...

While everyone is focused on tax reform developments these days, we cannot forget about the need for entitlement reform. In an attempt to devise a...

A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...

As we've written many times before, the U.S. population is aging and in doing so putting increasing pressure on Social Security, Medicare, and to some...

As we have written before, the recent downward turn in the growth of health care costs is an encouraging development, but one that may not last in the...