July 28, 2015 – The Supreme Pundit

Robert Reich: Medicare Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Solution

Some background: Medicare faces financial problems in future years because of two underlying trends that will affect all health care in coming years, regardless of what happens to Medicare: The first is that health care costs are rising overall—not as fast as they were rising before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, but still… Read More »

Why Medicare Should Be Available to All

Patients’ medical records sit on shelves in an office, pictured Nov. 7, 2015. The most expensive aspects of medical care in the United States—administrative costs, and fixing medical errors—can be addressed by expanding Medicare benefits, for which those same administrative costs are lower. Cultura/Alamy Medicare turns 50 this week. It was signed into law July… Read More »