Despite their popularity with seniors, the disabled, the needy, and those who might otherwise have to care for them, Medicare and Medicaid have done enormous damage to the U.S. health care sector and to individual liberty.

More on Medicare and Medicaid

Commentary

Why Indiana Shouldn’t Fall for Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

By Michael F. Cannon. Indianapolis Star. April 24, 2013.

Obama’s Damaging Admission

By Michael F. Cannon. National Review (Online). April 17, 2013.

Medicaid Expansion: Tennessee Would be Wise to Reject It

By Michael D. Tanner. Chattanooga Times Free Press. April 11, 2013.

Cato Studies

Articles

Should Kansas Expand Medicaid Under the Affordable Care Act?

Jagadeesh Gokhale. Kansas Policy Institute. February 2013.

The Effect of Federal Health Care ‘Reform’ on Kansas General Fund Medicaid Expenditures

Jagadeesh Gokhale and Angela C. Erickson. Kansas Policy Institute. June 2011.

Projecting Oklahoma’s Medicaid Expenditure Growth under the PPACA

Jagadeesh Gokhale and Angela C. Erickson. Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs. May 18, 2011.

Public Filings

The PPACA’s Health Insurance Exchanges and Medicaid Expansion

By Michael F. Cannon. Testimony. January 22, 2013.

Hall v. Sebelius

By Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus and Kathleen Hunker. Legal Briefs. September 28, 2012.

Estimating the Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Kansas Medicaid Expenditures

By Jagadeesh Gokhale. Testimony. November 9, 2011.

Events

Obamacare Is Still Vulnerable

Featuring Michael F. Cannon and Caleb O. Brown. November 28, 2012. Sponsor E-Briefing.

Millennials and the Welfare State: Burden or Blessing?

Featuring Michael D. Tanner and Tom G. Palmer. October 25, 2012. .

Is IPAB Medicare Reform? Or Just Another Stop on the Road to Serfdom?

Featuring Michael F. Cannon. October 11, 2012. Policy Forum.

Downsizing the Federal Government

Failures of the Unemployment Insurance System

By Chris Edwards and George C. Leef. June 2011.

Medicaid Reforms

By Chris Edwards. September 2010.

2010 Healthcare Legislation

By Michael D. Tanner. September 2010.