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Health Care

The major federal health programs – Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act – will be atop the federal agenda for the foreseeable future. As policymakers consider how to restrain health care spending growth and modify the major health programs, Policy Futures promotes policies that expand and sustain, rather than restrict, access to affordable health coverage.

Medicare Isn’t Going “Bankrupt”

Some politicians continue to claim erroneously that Medicare is running out of money.  House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan asserts that Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund “will go...