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Two New Ideas to Save Money on Drugs in Health Affairs
The House Affordable Medicines Caucus recently launched by Reps. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Keith Rothfus (R-PA) already has plenty of ideas to reform our...
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Senator Sanders Proposes Emergency VA Authorization
In response to the recent VA scandal and hospital backlogs, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed legislation...
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House Affordable Medicines Caucus Has Options
Reps. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Keith Rothfus (R-PA) have officially re-launched a bipartisan caucus in the House looking to promote the use of high...
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Rubio Proposes Retirement Program Reforms
As the Senate works this week to increase the debt, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) outlined a series of reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and retirement...
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Temporary Effects Driving Some of Medicare's Slow Growth in 2014
Medicare spending has grown remarkably slowly so far this year, according to the often-overlooked Monthly Budget Reviews from the Congressional Budget...
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How Much Difference Does Health Care Cost Growth Make to the Budget?
The recent slowdown in federal health care spending has certainly been good news for the budget, knocking hundreds of billions of dollars off...
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The $900 Billion Slowdown in Federal Health Care Spending
With April's updated projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), spending on major federal health care programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and...
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CBO Projects Small Dip in Medicare Spending
One of the notable changes in Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget baseline was a downward revision in projected Medicare spending from...
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Health Reform's Coverage Costs Decline by $104 Billion
The budget estimates in the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) baseline released today may have looked largely the same as in February's report...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Launches Long-Term Care Initiative
The enormous cost of providing long-term care represents a major challenge for America's health system, and a major funding challenge for Medicaid...
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Health Care Reforms in Chairman Paul Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) FY 2015 budget achieves $3 trillion of its $5.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years...
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SGR Continues to Slow Health Care Cost Growth
The Senate voted 64-35 today to approve a 12-month temporary “ doc fix” to push back the impending nearly 25 percent cut to Medicare physician...