Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Tinkering With What Works in Medicare 

I have a new report up at The Heritage Foundation on efforts to tinker with the Medicare Part D drug benefit program: 

Over the past several years, one small corner of America’s vast entitlement superstructure — the Medicare drug benefit — has been working well, satisfying program participants, and holding cost growth to a bare minimum. This is unheard of in the entitlement arena, where cost overruns are the norm. Naturally, encountering that kind of success, some politicians — especially those who had nothing to do with making sure it was properly designed — now want to change it....

You can read the whole article here (PDF here).

posted by James C. Capretta | 2:56 pm
Tags: Medicare, Medicare Part D
File As: Health Care