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The Affordable Care Act At 2 Years Old
On this day two years ago, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the first of two pieces of legislation that...
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Fiscal Fact Checker: What Has Happened to CBO's Estimate of the Affordable Care Act?
CBO's most recent estimate of the insurance coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act has sparked a debate about how CBO's estimate of ACA has...
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Line Items: March to Madness Edition
Mad, Mad World – There’s enough madness in DC to go around. Lawmakers from opposite parties seem perpetually angry at each other, yet they are moving...
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Washington Post Editorial Board Makes the Case for IPAB
With the House of Repressive getting ready to vote on a full repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the Washington Post Editorial...
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Health Spending Changes in CBO's March Baseline
In its March baseline, CBO made a number of changes in its projections for health care spending. Given the significance of health spending to the...
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Kaiser Compares Premium Support Proposals
For those of you who have had trouble keeping track of the many premium support proposals that have come out over the past year, the Kaiser Family...
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Vote to Repeal IPAB Shows Why It's Necessary
Update: CBO has estimated that the IPAB repeal bill (HR 452) would increase spending and deficits by $3 billion from 2013-2022. On Wednesday, the...
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Coburn and Burr Add to Medicare Discussion
Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC) came out with a Medicare proposal today that adds to the list of plans out there to rein in the...
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A Deal to Forget on the Hill
Update: The House has approved the payroll-tax deal 293-132. Just when you thought the conference committee might start agreeing on specific offsets...
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Fiscal Fact Checker: Has the 'Doc Fix' Actually Become More Expensive?
A claim that has been popping up in some news circles over the past day is that the doc fix -- which freezes Medicare payments to physicians, instead...
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A Gimmick on the Rise
Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...
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Two Good Op-Eds From The New York Times
The New York Times had two interesting op-eds over the weekend on two essential components of deficit reduction: tax reform and health care costs...