Health Care

On June 10, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an online webinar, Checking in on the Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds. The...

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today, finding that both programs have significantly worse financial outlooks...

Congress has now kicked off this year’s “Doc Fix” process, an increasingly annual occurrence where they provide ad-hoc pay increases to physicians...

Last week, the Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing on the high cost of hospital care with leaders of various health systems. Over the course of...

After proposing meaningful reforms to reduce Medicare Advantage (MA) overpayments in January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...

Recent actions from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could help reduce the estimated $1.3 trillion in Medicare Advantage (MA)...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) included important reforms to limit states’ costly use of State Directed Payments (SDPs) in the Medicaid...

Federal health programs will cost over $26 trillion through 2036, under the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, making health care the largest...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a Medicaid rule, last week, which closes an especially egregious loophole that allowed...

With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies set to expire soon, several policymakers have proposed plans to extend the enhancements. You can...

Despite a recent ice storm, over 200 people turned out for hot chocolate and health policy on January 28, 2026 for the Committee for a Responsible...