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Lawmakers Not Giving Up on Medicare Reforms
While the latest Medicare Trustees report showed slightly improved projections, the long-term challenges of health care cost growth and population...
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Holtz-Eakin: Medicare Still Needs Reform
The recent slowdown of health care spending growth is one of the more positive developments in the budget over the past few years. Despite the...
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A Closer Look at the Medicare Actuary's Alternative Medicare Projections
Earlier this week, we discussed the new Medicare Trustees projections which project that the Hospital Insurance (HI, or Part A) trust fund will be...
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Medicare Trust Fund Exhaustion Now Set for 2026
Along with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...
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WATCH: Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release Their Reports
At 11 AM Eastern time, the Social Security and Medicare trustees will release their respective reports on the finances of the two programs over the...
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Energy and Commerce Dips Its Toe Into the SGR Pool
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a small step in the process to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula -- Medicare's...
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The Economist on Entitlement Reform
Notwithstanding the recent short-term progress in reducing the deficit, our long-term debt outlook remains a problem. Although additional revenue will...
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The Latest on the Affordable Care Act
Although it may be difficult to get an updated comprehensive score of the Affordable Care Act from CBO, CBO has updated its estimate of the coverage...
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Upton and Hatch's Blueprint to Reform Medicaid
This week, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce...
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MY VIEW: Laura Tyson May 2013
In a piece for Project Syndicate, former Council of Economic Advisers chair and CRFB board member Laura Tyson discusses the recent slowdown in health...
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Brookings's Framework to Bend the Health Care Curve
Yesterday, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings released a new report on reducing health care costs called "Bending the Curve...
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How Simpson and Bowles Protect the Disadvantaged
Among the principles outlined by former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles in their new plan A Bipartisan Path Forward...