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Medicaid & Medicare blog
Compassionate Conservatism, No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part DTwo Bush-era laws grew the federal role in schools and in senior health care. Here is how each passed, what hawks said, and what the movement learned.Medicare part by part, what A, B, C and D cover and who paysMedicare has four lettered parts and a gap-filler called Medigap. Here is what each covers, who pays, and the Republican fingerprints on the design.Eleven Questions About Why Small-Town Hospitals Struggle and What HelpsLow volume, high fixed costs and a payer mix tied to Medicare and Medicaid squeeze rural hospitals. Eleven questions on the policy tools.NFIB v. Sebelius Lost the Mandate Fight but Won a Limit on Federal StringsEveryone remembers Roberts calling the mandate a tax. The lasting conservative win in the 2012 case was the limit on forcing states with federal money.What conservatives should learn from No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part DBush bolted testing and competition onto big federal programs. The programs lasted and the reforms faded, a lesson for the next conservative reformer.