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Medigap Reform: Setting the Context
As Congress looks for ways to reduce the national debt and rein in Medicare spending, some policymakers have offered proposals, including the President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction...
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Income-Relating Medicare Part B and Part D Premiums Under Current Law and...
Proposals to raise premiums for higher-income Medicare beneficiaries are currently being discussed along with other options to reduce federal spending on Medicare. Last year, as part of a more...
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Adding an Out-of-Pocket Spending Maximum to Medicare: Implementation Issues...
In an effort to simplify Medicare’s cost-sharing requirements, provide beneficiaries with catastrophic protection, and achieve program savings, some have proposed to restructure Medicare’s benefit...
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Old and Poor: America’s Forgotten
While the Census Bureau’s official poverty measure shows 9 percent of seniors nationally live in poverty, the share climbs to about one in seven seniors (15 percent) under the Bureau’s alternative...
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Testimony: Income Security and the Elderly: Securing Gains Made in the War on...
Senior Vice President Patricia Neuman testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging as part of its hearing entitled Income Security and the Elderly: Securing Gains Made in the War on...
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Summary of Medicare Provisions in the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2015
On March 4, 2014, the Office of Management and Budget released President Obama’s budget for fiscal year (FY) 2015, which includes provisions related to federal spending and revenues, including Medicare...
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Visualizing Income and Assets Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Now and in the...
This interactive tool describes the income, savings and home equity of people on Medicare in 2013, and in 2030. It allows users to break out the data by age, gender, race/ethnicity, marital status and...
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New Interactive Takes a Look at Income and Assets Among Medicare...
A small share of the 52.4 million elderly individuals and people with disabilities on Medicare have relatively high incomes, but most are of modest means — with half living on incomes of less than...
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The Mystery of the Missing $1,000 Per Person: Can Medicare’s Spending...
This policy insight examines the unexpected drop in Medicare's per-beneficiary spending projections and its implications for beneficiaries and the program's future.
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Aiming for Fewer Hospital U-turns: The Medicare Hospital Readmission...
This Issue Brief describes the Medicare Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), which penalizes hospitals that have relatively higher readmission rates, analyzes the impact of this program on...
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Summary of Medicare Provisions in the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2016
On February 2, 2015, the Office of Management and Budget released President Obama’s budget for fiscal year (FY) 2016, which includes provisions related to federal spending and revenues, including...
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How Would a Long-Term “Doc Fix” Affect Seniors’ Medicare Costs?
In this new Policy Insight, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Cristina Boccuti and Tricia Neuman examine how Congress’ effort to permanently stave off scheduled cuts in Medicare’s physician payments could...
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How Much (More) Will Seniors Pay for a Doc Fix?
In this Policy Insight, the Foundation’s Cristina Boccuti and Tricia Neuman examine how Congress’ effort to permanently stave off scheduled cuts in Medicare’s physician payments could affect what...
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Medicare’s Income-Related Premiums: A Data Note
This data note presents new information to help set a context for understanding the implications of proposed changes to Medicare's income-related premiums. It describes current-law requirements with...
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Income-Related Premiums in Medicare: Who Pays, and How Much Do They Pay?
Since 2007, seniors with incomes greater than $85,000 have had to pay higher premiums for Medicare than their counterparts with lower incomes. Six percent of Medicare Part B enrollees are expected to...
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The Story of Medicare: A Timeline
Written and produced by Foundation staff, The Story of Medicare: A Timeline serves as a visual timeline of Medicare’s history, including the debate that led to its creation in 1965 and subsequent...
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Medicare’s Income-Related Premiums Will Rise for Some Higher-Income...
Some higher-income Medicare beneficiaries will have to pay more in Part B and Part D premiums starting in 2018, due to a provision in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, a...
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Comparing Poverty Rates under the Official Census Poverty Measure and the...
This interactive graphic illustrates how poverty rates among seniors in each of the 50 states change under two different Census Bureau measures of poverty: the official poverty measure and an...
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Income and Assets of Medicare Beneficiaries, 2014 – 2030
This issue brief, co-authored by researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute, describes the income, savings, and home equity of current Medicare beneficiaries, considers...
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The Latest Trends in Income, Assets, and Personal Health Care Spending Among...
This slideshow presents the latest data on income, assets, and personal health care spending among people on Medicare.
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