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Latest Health Spending Projection Shows Higher Spending Growth Ahead
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections for 2015-2025 last week. National health...
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Zika Debate Provides An Opportunity to Discuss How Emergencies Are Funded
Currently, Congress is debating if and how to provide emergency funding to fight the Zika virus. While the President has requested $1.9 billion in...
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Analysis of Donald Trump's Health Care Plan
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently released a health care reform plan entitled “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again.”
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Provider Tax Limits Should Be On The Table for Medicaid Reform
Recently, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) criticized the House Energy & Commerce (E&C) Committee for proposing to limit abuse of...
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ARCHIVE: Analysis of Donald Trump's Health Care Plan
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently released a health care reform plan entitled “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again.”...
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Two Committees Roll Out Mandatory Savings Package
Last week, two House Committees, Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, released a package of bills that would reduce mandatory spending. The bills...
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Medicare to Test New Payment Models for Outpatient Drugs
Progress on policies to slow the growth of health care spending is expected to be slow in an election year, but this week, the Center for Medicare and...
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Four Fiscal FactChecks from the Past Month
As the 2016 Presidential primary season rolls on, CRFB continues to fact check the candidates on budget-related statements made during the campaign on...
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Could Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices Save $300 Billion Per Year?
Over the course of the Presidential campaign, Republican campaign Donald Trump has repeatedly called for having Medicare directly negotiate drug...
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Adding Up Senator Cruz's Campaign Proposals So Far
Update, 3/8/16: Since this analysis was posted, the Tax Policy Center added an additional policy of Sen. Cruz’s tax plan to their analysis that...
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Additional Offsets for Senator Sanders's Health Plan
The Sanders campaign has listed additional offsets on their website to pay for the "Medicare-for-all" health plan – most significantly taxation of...
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Adding Up Donald Trump's Campaign Proposals So Far
NOTE: This is an archive version of this analysis and contains out-of-date estimates. The most up-to-date analysis can be found here: https:/...