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Health Care Policies in the President's Budget
Lawmakers often lament the difficulty of reforming Medicare and other health care programs, but the difficulty is not a lack of viable options. One...
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The Basics of the SGR Replacement Bill
The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula returned yesterday with 21 percent cuts to Medicare physician payments, although the actual effect won't be...
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The Path to $165 Billion of Savings
We have spent much space on this blog highlighting the fact that temporary delays of the cuts dictated by Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)...
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No, the SGR Replacement Bill is Not Fiscally Responsible
Despite official estimates tabbing the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula replacement bill at a cost of $141 billion this decade and...
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SGR Bill Would Add $500 Billion to Long-Term Debt
Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Medicare Sustaintable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill under consideration...
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Assuming Costs Away Doesn’t Make SGR Deal Free
Now that we have shown that the "doc fix" proposal in the House will likely add to the debt in the longer term – refuting a key argument for not fully...
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SGR Plan Will Likely Increase, Not Reduce, Long-Term Debt
Note: The analysis below is based on an earlier version of the SGR plan, which has since been adjusted to include modestly larger offsets and – more...
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Support Grows for Fiscally Responsible Doc Fix
As doc fix discussions continue in Congress, three opinion pieces recently declared support for fully offsetting the cost of a replacement for the...
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CBO Delivers Good News for the Affordable Care Act
The latest CBO projections show a slight improvement on our fiscal situation over the previous ones made in January, and lower projected health...
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CRFB Publishes Updated PREP Plan Outlining Responsible SGR Reform
In light of the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump when the most recent doc fix patch expires on March 31, yesterday we released an update to our Paying for...