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SGR Bill Would Add $500 Billion to Long-Term Debt
Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Medicare Sustaintable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill under consideration...
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Assuming Costs Away Doesn’t Make SGR Deal Free
Now that we have shown that the "doc fix" proposal in the House will likely add to the debt in the longer term – refuting a key argument for not fully...
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SGR Plan Will Likely Increase, Not Reduce, Long-Term Debt
Note: The analysis below is based on an earlier version of the SGR plan, which has since been adjusted to include modestly larger offsets and – more...
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Support Grows for Fiscally Responsible Doc Fix
As doc fix discussions continue in Congress, three opinion pieces recently declared support for fully offsetting the cost of a replacement for the...
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What the Wall Street Journal Gets Wrong on the SGR
This weekend, The Wall Street Journal announced its support for the permanent Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) replacement currently being negotiated in...
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CBO Delivers Good News for the Affordable Care Act
The latest CBO projections show a slight improvement on our fiscal situation over the previous ones made in January, and lower projected health...
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CRFB Publishes Updated PREP Plan Outlining Responsible SGR Reform
In light of the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump when the most recent doc fix patch expires on March 31, yesterday we released an update to our Paying for...
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The PREP Plan: A Permanent Fix for the Sustainable Growth Rate
On April 1 of this year, physicians face a 21 percent cut to their Medicare payments resulting from the return of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)...
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Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Congress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...