There is increasing interest in expanding Medicare health insurance coverage in the U.S., but it is not clear whether … the current program is the right foundation on which to build. Traditional Medicare covers a uniformset of benefits for … generous, uniform structure. We argue that three major shifts make a uniform design less efficient today than when Medicare …

We use the design of Medicare's prescription drug benefit program to demonstrate three facts about the health …

We study Medicare's competitive bidding program (CBP) for durable medical equipment (DME). We exploit Medicare claims … leverage differential cost sharing across Medicare recipients. We measure a demand elasticity of -0.272 and find that quantity …

by Medicare expenditures, the answer is yes. During 1987-2001, low income households experienced an increase of 78 … receiving it, regardless of health status or preferences. Using Medicare claims data matched to zip code income, we find greater …

2010 and 2011, the subsidies in Medicare Part D were revised, sharply changing the subsidy for diagnoses and demographic …

.S. regional hospital markets to instrument for market concentration. We then estimate the model using risk-adjusted Medicare data …

We use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to document the medical spending of Americans aged 65 …