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Health Spending Outlook Shows Faster Growth Ahead
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections through 2027, showing health...
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How Much Will Medicare for All Cost?
Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a co-chair of the Medicare for All Caucus, released a bill today that would adopt a single-payer system, where...
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House to Vote on $100 Billion Lame Duck Tax Package
The House will likely consider a package of lame duck tax cuts costing almost $100 billion over ten years. About half of the cost comes from delaying...
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Momentum for Lower Drug Prices Emerging
Policymakers have been quietly making progress on lowering drug prices in recent weeks. Most notably, the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Marc Goldwein and Mark Litow: The fate of American health-care reform is on the ballot this November
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Mark Litow is the...
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House to Consider Another $59 Billion of Tax Cuts
The House will likely consider a package of health-related tax cuts this week, separate from the permanent extension of the 2017 tax law considered by...
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CMS Takes Some Steps to Improve Medicare Payments
Over the past two months, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed or issued several new rules aimed at reducing costs and...
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Proposed Senate Point of Order Would Limit Health Care Proposals in Budget Reconciliation
For Immediate Release Today, 12 senators introduced a proposal that would establish a new Senate point of order to restrict the types of changes that...
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House to Vote on $90 Billion of Tax Cuts
The House of Representatives is voting this week on three bills targeting health care-related tax provisions and expanding the use of Health Savings...
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Ways and Means Committee Considering $92 Billion of Tax Cuts
The House Ways and Means Committee today is marking up a package of 11 tax bills related to health care. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)...
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Health Care Spending in the Long-Term Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows debt reaching an all-time record as a share of GDP by 2034 and nearly doubling as a...
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Concerned Actuaries Group Publishes New Analyses on Health Care System’s Sustainability
Last month, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Concerned Actuaries Group launched the American Health Care Initiative, a...