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4 Ideas That Should Be Considered For Any Health Reform Package
It is unclear whether the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) – the Senate GOP's proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA or...
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Long-Term Estimate: Senate Health Care Bill Could Save $2.1 Trillion Over 20 Years
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the Senate health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), would save $321 billion...
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Marc Goldwein: 'Big 3' Burden: Entitlement Costs Simply Untenable
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Commitee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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Is There a Medicaid Spending Increase Under the Senate Health Bill?
President Donald Trump recently claimed on Twitter that Medicaid spending will go up under the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). It is...
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Rudolph Penner: The Attacks On The Congressional Budget Office Are Wrong
Dr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
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CBO Scores the Senate Health Care Bill
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its score of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). This is the Senate's version of...
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Quick Take: The Major Changes in the Senate's AHCA
Senate Republicans released their draft version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 this morning. This is the Senate version of the American...
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Paying for the Senate's Changes to the AHCA
Senate Republicans are continuing work on their iteration of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and press reports indicate that senators aim to make...
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A First Look at the CMS Estimate of the AHCA
The Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) today...
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Price Confirms Double-Counting in President's Budget
One source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...
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How to Reduce Medicare Spending Without Cutting Benefits
During the 2016 presidential campaign, President Trump argued against making cuts to Social Security and Medicare. At the time, we showed that...
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Factchecking Trump on Taxes
This week's issue of The Economist featured an interview with President Donald Trump covering economic, health, tax, and trade policy. We factchecked...