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New Affordable Care Act Repeal Estimate Still Shows Deficit Increase
For the first time in nearly three years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the budgetary effect of repealing the...
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House IPAB Repeal Vote Would Damage the Long-Term Outlook
Isn’t it ironic, mere days after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warns about our nation’s long-term fiscal challenges in its annual report, the...
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Budget Issues Abound in the Senate Defense Authorization
Update: The Reed amendment was rejected in floor consideration by a 46-51 vote. The Senate is currently considering the National Defense Authorization...
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$12 Billion Cures Bill Advances in House
Update: This blog was updated on June 30 to reflect a CBO estimate published on June 23. Our original estimate was $13 billion, based on staff...
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House Set to Target Deficit-Reducing Parts of ACA
Update (6/12/15): A new CBO score estimates that repealing IPAB will cost $7.1 billion over ten years, with all of the cost recorded after 2021. The...
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Sanders Takes Aim at Generic Drug Prices in Medicaid
Earlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act, a bill...
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164 Ways to Reduce the Deficit
CRFB has released a new compendium of over 150 options to reduce mandatory spending and raise revenue. Despite declining in deficits in recent years...
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Let the Cadillac Tax Drive...Down Deficits and Health Care Spending
A group of House Democrats introduced a bill yesterday to repeal the tax on high-cost health insurance plans, commonly known as the "Cadillac tax,"...
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The Post-SGR Budget Outlook
Lawmakers cleared their second Fiscal Speed Bump of the year - the expiration of the one-year "doc fix" - earlier this month, scuttling the Medicare...
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A Quick Take on Governor Christie's Entitlement Plan
This morning, Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) delivered an important speech in New Hampshire on the need for entitlement reform. The speech not only...
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PAYGO or No-Go: An Easy Way for Congress to Improve the SGR Bill
There's a simple way to make the $141 billion House-passed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) bill more fiscally responsible: don't exempt it from...