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Understanding the ACA Subsidy Discussion
Read moreAs policymakers continue to debate what’s next for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, there has been significant confusion over how the...
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WATCH - Erskine Bowles: We Can Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreErskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal...
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Event Recap: Saving the Trust Funds
Read moreOn October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare. The event...
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Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreOn October 22, 2025, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Savings the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare, an...
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An Employer Compensation Tax for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreThe Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds are approaching insolvency, with both trust funds expected to be...
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Court Blocks CMS Ability to Recover Overpayments from Medicare Advantage
Read moreOverpayments in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program continue to be a significant problem for the federal government, and the problem may have just...
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It's Time for Trust Fund Solutions
Read moreSome of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated revenues and then...
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Chris Towner: The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real
Read moreChris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Monthly, an...
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SDPs Run Amuck - The Case of Medical Debt Forgiveness as a Pretext for High Payments
Read moreMedicaid provides health insurance to nearly 71 million people, and will cost the federal government over $650 billion this year – nearly double what...
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Offsetting ACA Enhanced Subsidy Extensions
Read more9/26/25: Updated to reflect new CBO estimate of the cost of enhanced ACA subsidies. With early marketplace premium estimates rolling out, there is...
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CMS Takes on Medicare Fraud
Read moreIn a recent LA Times op-ed, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deputy Administrator Kimberly Brandt...
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CMS Rule Would Close Medicaid Loophole
Read moreThe Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a rule to limit some of the most egregious provider taxes used by states to...