From 2021 to 2022, Medicare spending increased by 5.9 percent, from $689 billion in 2021 to $944 billion in 2022, reaching 21 percent of total National Health Expenditures. Increased Medicare spending ...

Recently, a number of health policy experts have suggested that the best route to universal coverage might be to expand Medicare Advantage (MA) rather than enact Medicare for All—in other words, a ...

Dated insurance design underlies the traditional Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) program, driving uncontrolled health spending. Innovation in traditional Medicare has failed to control expenditure ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Ritchard Jenkins reached into the black ...

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...