States government could adopt the same approach with the Medicare drug program and use its market leverage to negotiate the …

When Congress was debating the Medicare drug benefit in 2003, there were many who advocated that Medicare provide the … administrative costs and also as result of Medicare’s ability to use its market power to directly negotiate lower prices with the …

advantage of these gains – through a globalization of the country’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. The projections in this …

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). The results show that the 1st income quintile of …

his overhaul of the medicare system. Using data from the CBO analysis of the Ryan plan, this issue brief demonstrates that … any savings to the government under the revamped medicare system places the burden of rising healthcare costs more …

Representative Ryan’s proposal to replace the current Medicare systemwith a system of vouchers or premium supports has … small relative to the projected increase in costs that would result from having Medicare provided by private insurers … instead of the government-run Medicare system. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) projections imply that the Ryan plan …