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The Kaiser Project on Medicare’s Future

The Kaiser Project on Medicare’s Future is a major initiative of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program on Medicare Policy, focused on producing timely and authoritative analysis of leading Medicare deficit reduction options and other reforms affecting people on Medicare, and on informing the debate about the future of the Medicare program. The Project is supported in part by a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies. The Kaiser Family Foundation is solely responsible for the work of the Project.

About the Kaiser Family Foundation
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a leader in health policy analysis, health journalism and communication, is dedicated to filling the need for trusted, independent information on the major health issues facing our nation and its people. The Foundation is a non-profit private operating foundation, based in Menlo Park, California.

About Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Philanthropies are dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Atlantic focuses on four critical social problems: Ageing, Children & Youth, Population Health, and Reconciliation & Human Rights. Programmes funded by Atlantic operate in Australia, Bermuda, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United States and Viet Nam. To learn more, please visit www.atlanticphilanthropies.com.

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Comparison of Medicare Premium Support Proposals -- March 2012
This brief provides a side-by-side comparison of recent proposals to transform Medicare into a premium support program and slow the future growth in Medicare spending.

Key Issues in Understanding the Economic and Health Security of Current and Future Generations of Seniors -- March 2012
This brief examines the role of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in ensuring seniors' financial and health security as well as the challenges facing current and future generations.

Health Care on a Budget: The Financial Burden of Health Spending by Medicare Households -- March 2012
This data spotlight looks at the average total share of household budgets spent on out-of-pocket health care expenses in Medicare and non-Medicare families, including the extent to which this spending varies by age and poverty level.

Income-Relating Medicare Part B and Part D Premiums Under Current Law and Recent Proposals: What are the Implications for Beneficiaries? -- February 2012
This analysis examines proposals to increase the number of Medicare beneficiaries who pay income-related premiums and the amount they pay to reduce federal Medicare spending.

Medicare Quiz -- February 2012
How much do you know about Medicare, the people it serves, the benefits it covers, and its financial status? Take this interactive quiz to find out.

Restructuring Medicare’s Benefit Design: Implications for Beneficiaries and Spending -- November 2011
The study projects how revamping Medicare's cost-sharing requirements to reduce federal spending could affect Medicare beneficiaries and the federal budget.

Medigap Reform: Setting the Context -- September 2011
This issue brief examines the characteristics of the one-in-five Medicare beneficiaries with Medigap coverage and the current state of the Medigap market, with new national and state-level data on Medigap enrollment and average premiums, by plan type. The brief focuses especially on Medigap plans C and F, which provide first dollar coverage, with full payment for both Part A and Part B deductibles and other cost-sharing requirements.

Comparison of Medicare Provisions in Deficit and Debt Reduction Proposals -- September 2011
With major changes to Medicare being considered as part of broader deficit and debt-reduction plans, the Foundation has prepared a side-by-side comparing the Medicare provisions in key reports and proposals.

The Budget Control Act of 2011: Implications for Medicare -- September 2011
This brief examines how the Budget Control Act of 2011, and the process it creates for reducing the federal deficit over the next decade, could affect the Medicare program.

Medigap Reforms: Potential Effects of Benefit Restrictions on Medicare Spending and Beneficiary Costs -- July 2011
This analysis commissioned by the Foundation examines the potential effects of three Medigap reform options, which would prohibit these supplemental insurance plans from covering all of enrollee’s out-of-pocket Medicare costs.

This brief provides a side-by-side comparison of recent proposals to transform Medicare into a premium support program and slow the future growth in Medicare spending.

This brief examines the role of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in ensuring seniors' financial and health security as well as the challenges facing current and future generations.

This data spotlight looks at the average total share of household budgets spent on out-of-pocket health care expenses in Medicare and non-Medicare families, including the extent to which this spending varies by age and poverty level.

This analysis examines proposals to increase the number of Medicare beneficiaries who pay income-related premiums and the amount they pay to reduce federal Medicare spending.

How much do you know about Medicare, the people it serves, the benefits it covers, and its financial status? Take this interactive quiz to find out.

The study projects how revamping Medicare's cost-sharing requirements to reduce federal spending could affect Medicare beneficiaries and the federal budget.

This issue brief examines the characteristics of the one-in-five Medicare beneficiaries with Medigap coverage and the current state of the Medigap market, with new national and state-level data on Medigap enrollment and average premiums, by plan type. The brief focuses especially on Medigap plans C and F, which provide first dollar coverage, with full payment for both Part A and Part B deductibles and other cost-sharing requirements.

With major changes to Medicare being considered as part of broader deficit and debt-reduction plans, the Foundation has prepared a side-by-side comparing the Medicare provisions in key reports and proposals.

This brief examines how the Budget Control Act of 2011, and the process it creates for reducing the federal deficit over the next decade, could affect the Medicare program.

This analysis commissioned by the Foundation examines the potential effects of three Medigap reform options, which would prohibit these supplemental insurance plans from covering all of enrollee’s out-of-pocket Medicare costs.

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