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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...
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You Can't Pay for Tax Reform with Health Reform
In an interview yesterday on the Fox Business Network, President Trump described how it is better to do health care reform before tax reform because...
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Does AHCA Make Tax Reform Easier?
Much of the news coverage on the interplay between health care and tax reform claims the failure to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) makes tax...
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Dan Crippen: Why the CBO’s health bill numbers matter — even if they’re imperfect
Dan Crippen served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1999 to 2003 and is currently a member of the board of the Committee for a...
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What We Know About the “Third Prong” of the Republicans’ Health Care Plan
Update (3/27/2017): After publication, CBO released a score for H.R. 1215 - the Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017. This blog has been updated to...
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AHCA Manager's Amendments Will Likely Cut Deficit Reduction in Half
The House Rules Committee released two manager's amendments to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday evening in advance of their scheduled...