Health Care

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...

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...

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...

Update: The House has approved the payroll-tax deal 293-132. Just when you thought the conference committee might start agreeing on specific offsets...

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...

Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...

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...

Over the past couple of years, we've been arguing that raising the Social Security and Medicare ages could be an important part of a fiscal reform...

Readers of this blog will be familiar with the Zero Plan from the Fiscal Commission's tax reform effort. An article in the newest issue of Health...

Remember when we said last November that Congress had a lot to do by the end of the year? Well, they took care of FY 2012 appropriations, but...

In response to the release of the Ryan-Wyden premium support plan last week, The New York Times spelled out options for reducing Medicare spending...

This morning, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled their proposal to significantly change Medicare, one of the...