Archive: Patrick Hubbard
The brief’s key findings are: Medicare’s finances have improved over the past decade, but major challenges remain, such as the program’s vulnerability to expensive new drugs. This risk was underscored by the saga of Aduhelm, a costly and controversial new drug for early-stage Alzheimer’s. The immediate risk eased in January when Medicare proposed limiting t…
The brief’s key findings are: How best to adjust Social Security benefits for inflation has been controversial. Critics argue that an experimental index for the elderly (the CPI-E) should replace the current broader index (the CPI-W). Historically, the CPI-E, which places more weight on health care costs, has risen faster than the CPI-W. But, over…
