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Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Update: Falling Deficit is Not a Sign of Fiscal Sustainability
With the Treasury Department's year-end Monthly Treasury Statement having been released, we have revised last week's report today showing what the...
Changing the Baseline Could Mean an Extra Trillion in Debt
Republicans and Democrats do not agree on much, but both parties are talking about business tax reform that is "revenue-neutral," raising the same...
Is the 340B Program Living Up to Expectations?
The 340B Drug Pricing Program, enacted in 1992, gives hospitals and other providers serving disproportionately low-income populations the ability to...
The Concern Has Always Been Long-Term Deficits
With the FY 2014 deficit continuing a trend of falling deficits over the past few years, some commentators have argued that budget hawks are...
How Medicare Part D's Low-Income Subsidy Could Work Better
During the recent slowdown in Medicare spending, the prescription drug portion of the program, Part D, has been the lead actor in the story. The...
Delayed Action on Extenders Might Add to FY 2015 Deficit
While explaining why deficits have fallen from their historically large peak in 2009, we noted the main source of this tumble is a 43 percent rise in...
Falling Deficit is Not a Sign of Fiscal Sustainability
With the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) year-end Monthly Budget Review having been released, we published a report today showing what the 2014...
Medicare Registers Fourth-Lowest Growth Rate in Program History in 2014
With today's release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) final Monthly Budget Review for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, many will be focused on the...
NCHC Gives 113th Congress A Failing Grade On Health Care Cost Control...So Far
It is no secret that the 113th Congress has had little success reaching agreement on major policy changes, so its lackluster results on a report card...
Concord: Key Questions to Ask Candidates About Our Fiscal Future
The national debt is currently twice the historical average, and will grow unsustainably until Congress makes responsible changes. Voters should be...
Hiatt: There Hasn't Been a Deficit Victory
In an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday, editor Fred Hiatt pushed back on assertions by the Obama Administration that they have won over the...
Maya MacGuineas: A Social Security ‘Fix’ That Falls Short
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...