Health Affairs

With the release of the Medicare Trustees’ report for 2009, the worsening economy, and the continued high and rising cost of health care, many are anxiously awaiting a credible plan to reform the Medicare program and the health system as a whole. As Peter Orszag and others have argued persuasively, the ever-growing cost of health... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a Health Affairs Blog series on Medicare physician compensation and the Sustainable Growth Rate mechanism. The first post by Paul Ginsburg appeared yesterday. In the coming days, the series will feature posts by Jay Crosson, Mina Matin, Frank Opelka, Eugene Rich, and Gail Wilensky.  To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) gets no respect. In... Read the rest of this entry »