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Marc Goldwein: 'Big 3' Burden: Entitlement Costs Simply Untenable
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Commitee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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Is There a Medicaid Spending Increase Under the Senate Health Bill?
Read morePresident Donald Trump recently claimed on Twitter that Medicaid spending will go up under the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). It is...
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Rudolph Penner: The Attacks On The Congressional Budget Office Are Wrong
Read moreDr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
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CBO Scores the Senate Health Care Bill
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its score of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). This is the Senate's version of...
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Quick Take: The Major Changes in the Senate's AHCA
Read moreSenate Republicans released their draft version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 this morning. This is the Senate version of the American...
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Paying for the Senate's Changes to the AHCA
Read moreSenate Republicans are continuing work on their iteration of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and press reports indicate that senators aim to make...
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Gene Steuerle: Replacing The Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance: A First Step To Compromise
Read moreThe Trump Administration and congressional Republicans remain stalemated over how to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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A First Look at the CMS Estimate of the AHCA
Read moreThe Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) today...
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Price Confirms Double-Counting in President's Budget
Read moreOne source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...
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Maya MacGuineas: The CBO Report Was a Healthy Dose of Reality on Repealing Obamacare
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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CBO's Estimate of the House-Passed AHCA
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released their updated score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as passed by the House of...
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How to Reduce Medicare Spending Without Cutting Benefits
Read moreDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, President Trump argued against making cuts to Social Security and Medicare. At the time, we showed that...