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Momentum for Lower Drug Prices Emerging
Read morePolicymakers 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
Read moreMarc 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreOver 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
Read moreFor 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreLast month, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Concerned Actuaries Group launched the American Health Care Initiative, a...
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Medicare Advantage Proposal Reforms Benefits and the Bidding Process
Read moreThe Medicare Trustees recently delivered a reminder of the importance of reducing Medicare costs. As Steven M. Lieberman, Loren Adler, Erin Trish...
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Analysis of the 2018 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Medicare Trustees have released their 2018 report on the financial status of Medicare. The report shows that Medicare spending will increase...
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Mitch Daniels: That Entitlements Can is Getting Heavier, and We’re Running Out of Road
Read moreMitch Daniels is the president of Purdue University, a former governor of Indiana, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a co...