7/31/08 Medicare Changes Can Complement Health Reform

7/15/08 Statement: Edwin Park, Senior Fellow, on the President’s Veto of the Medicare “Doctor Fix” Bill

7/9/08 A Balanced Approach to Restoring Fiscal Responsibility

7/7/08 Policy Points: Controversial Provision of “Doctor Fix” Bill Would Improve Medicare and Help Keep Bill Deficit-Neutral

5/20/08 Improving the Medicare Savings Programs Would Help Low-Income Seniors Cope With Higher Medical Expenses

5/13/08 Informing the Debate about Curbing Medicare Advantage Overpayments

Revised 4/2/08 Statement: Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on the Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report

Revised 4/2/08 Trustees Reports Show Social Security Shortfall Manageable, Medicare’s Problems More Daunting

Revised 2/15/08 The President’s Budget and the Medicare “Trigger”

Revised 2/7/08 The Dubious Priorities of the President’s Budget

12/21/07 New Medicaid Rules Would Limit Care for Children in Foster Care and People with Disabilities in Ways Congress Did Not Intend

12/5/07 Curbing Medicare Advantage Overpayments Would Strengthen Medicare

Revised 8/1/07 House Health Legislation Would Curb Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, While Aiding Medicare Beneficiaries Overall

7/31/07 Private Plans Continue to Use Misleading Arguments to Oppose Reforms of Medicare Overpayments

7/30/07 House SCHIP Legislation Would Repeal Dubious “45-Percent Threshold” Provision

7/23/07 Congress to Consider Repeal of Medicare Demonstration Project Designed To Promote Privatization, Rather Than Yield Valid Results

7/19/07 Informing the Debate about Curbing Medicare Advantage Overpayments

5/10/07 Curbing Medicare Overpayments To Private Insurers Could Benefit Minorities And Help Expand Children’s Health Coverage

4/23/07 A Brief Analysis of the Social Security And Medicare Trustees’ Report

4/23/07 Statement: Robert Greenstein on the New Report from the Medicare Trustees

4/20/07 Private Plan Overpayments Weaken Medicare’s Financing and Hasten the Program’s Insolvency

4/20/07 Forthcoming Medicare Trustees' Report May Contain Dubious "Medicare Funding Warning"

4/3/07 Low-Income and Minority Beneficiaries Do Not Rely Disproportionately on Medicare Advantage Plans: Industry Campaign to Protect Billions in Overpayments Rests on Distortions

6/26/06 Senate Budget Process Legislation Embraces Misguided “45-Percent Trigger”

5/1/06 Statement of Robert Greenstein, Regarding The Social Security And Medicare Trustees’ Report

Revised 5/1/06 Trustees' Report Focuses Attention on Misguided Medicare "45-Percent Trigger"

3/13/06 President and Senate Budget Committee Embrace Misguided “45-Percent Trigger”

11/4/05 Administration Ignores MedPAC Findings and Recommendation in Threatening Veto Over Senate Medicare Provision

10/12/05 Critical Choices: Will Congress Secure Health Care Savings by Targeting “Weak Claims” or “Weak Clients”?

10/12/05 Adopting MedPAC Recommendations to Reduce Excessive Medicare Managed Care Plan Payments Could Yield Large Budget Reconciliation Savings

Revised 3/31/05 Element of Medicare Trustees' Report Could Spell Trouble For Beneficiaries In Future Years

Revised 4/20/04 Overlooked Element of Medicare Trustees’ Report Could Spell Trouble For Beneficiaries in Future Years

1/29/04 New Food Stamp Outreach Opportunity: Medicare Discount Drug Card Offers An Opportunity To Expand Food Stamp Enrollment Among The Elderly And People With Disabilities

12/11/03 The AARP Ads and the New Medicare Prescription Drug Law

12/8/03 Statement by Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget And Policy Priorities, Regarding the Signing of the Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation

Revised 12/8/03 The Troubling Medicare Legislation

Revised 11/21/03 Medicare Agreement Would Make Substantial Numbers of Seniors and People with Disabilities Worse Off than Under Current Law

11/18/03 Press Release: Millions Of Poor Seniors And People with Disabilities Could End Up Worse Off Under New Medicare Agreement

Revised 11/7/03 Medicare "Cost Containment" Proposal Includes Ideologically Loaded Provisions

11/3/03 Administration Proposal To Combine The Accounting Of Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, And Prescription Drugs Is Unsound

9/9/03 The Six Million Medicare Beneficiaries Excluded from Prescription Drug Benefits Under the Senate Bill Are Disproportionately Minority

9/9/03 About 1.7 Million Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural America Would Be Denied Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Under the Senate Prescription Drug Bill

7/31/03 Senate Prescription Drug Bill Would Exclude Millions of Low-income Beneficiaries

7/31/03 How Many Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries In Each State Would Be Denied The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Under The Senate Drug Bill?

7/31/03 Press Release: 6.4 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Would Receive No Medicare Drug Coverage Under Senate Drug Bill

3/3/03 Shift In Costs From Medicare To Medicaid Is A Principal Reason For Rising State Medicaid Expenditures

2/25/03 The Medicaid-Medicare Link: State Medicaid Programs Are Shouldering A Greater Share Of The Costs Of Care For Seniors And People With Disabilities

8/16/02 House Passes Health Tax Package That Provides Little Assistance To People with Long-Term Care Needs

6/26/02 House Ways and Means Committee Health Tax Package Provides Little Assistance to People with Long-Term Care Needs

2/13/98 Would the Proposed National Tobacco Settlement Compensate the Federal Government Adequately for Tobacco-Related Health Care Costs?

2/10/98 The Proposed National Tobacco Settlement and Recovery of Federal Health Care Costs