Medicare/Medicaid

Policy Paper

Essential Elements: Medicare’s Long-Term Sustainability Challenge

Academy’s Essential Elements paper, Medicare’s Long-Term Sustainability Challenge, provides updated figures and information on the financial outlook of Medicare following the release of the…

Issue Brief

A Guide to Analyzing Medicare Premium Support

Issue guide on Medicare premium support and the potential implications of shifting Medicare to a premium support program.

Issue Brief

Voter Guide – A Guide to Analyzing the Issues: Medicare Premium Support

e to help voters understand what premium support is and the potential implications of shifting Medicare to a premium support program.

Issue Brief

Decision Brief: Implications of Medicaid Expansion Decisions on Private Coverage

Decision brief highlighting some of the issues that federal and state policymakers and regulators should consider as they are making their Medicaid expansion decisions.

Policy Paper

Voter Guide – What Voters Should Know About Medicare

oter guide on Medicare to help explain the essential components of the program.

Policy Paper

Medicare Reform Options

Medicare Steering Committee monograph highlighting various potential approaches for addressing Medicare’s financial problems, along with a discussion of their relative strengths and weaknesses. The…

Policy Paper

2004 Election Guide on Medicare Reform

This 2004 election guide for journalists, policy-makers and citizens to use as they evaluate the candidates’ Medicare proposals. It summarizes several Medicare issues and suggests questions that…

Policy Paper

Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: The Devil is in the Details

Health Practice Council white paper addressing issues for consideration in the debate over a prescription drug program under Medicare.

Policy Paper

Medicare Reform: Providing Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries

Medicare Reform Task Force monograph on one option available to provide prescription drug coverage to seniors – adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare.

Policy Paper

Medicare Reform: Evaluating the Fiscal Soundness of Medicare

Medicare Reform Task Force monograph on how Medicare solvency is measured and several proposals to strengthen the financial basis of the program.