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...authors noted that despite national hubbub over Medicare??s prescription drug benefits, it ranked a distant third with only 15 percent citing it among their top two concerns...
...this jeremiad has begun to seem hopelessly unhip (or, in the current shorthand, “partisan”). It is not suave to be indignant about public lying. But like error, lying violates ideals to which universities in particular are dedicated. Medicare??s chief actuary calculated in 2003, before Congress voted on the prescription-drug benefit, a 10-year cost for the program: $599.5 billion. His boss told him, “We have to keep this from getting out,” and added, “The consequences for insubordination are extraordinarily severe...
Foster is Medicare??s chief actuary, the government’s top nonpartisan analyst of Medicare costs. An award-winning mathematician with—as The New York Times recently described it—a “reputation for being careful in his assessments,” Foster estimated (after “dozens and dozens of analyses”) that Bush’s prescription drug benefit bill would cost about $150 billion more over 10 years than the White House told Congress...
Whatever the outcome of Congress’s contentious debate over a Medicare prescription drug benefit—whether or not the legislation now being considered is enacted—lawmakers are only beginning to confront the most difficult question about Medicare??s future. How will the federal government provide and finance a prescription drug benefit for seniors that will be viable for decades to come...
...second unresolved issue is whether a prescription drug benefit—and other health insurance benefits under Medicare??should be managed principally by competing private plans or by the traditional government-run plan. The current House bill contains significant incentives for seniors to leave the conventional Medicare plan in 2010 and join private HMOs and other managed care insurers. This is likely to become controversial because, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll, 63 percent of seniors would prefer to receive their benefits from the current government Medicare program—as opposed...