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Health Reform's Coverage Costs Decline by $104 Billion
The budget estimates in the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) baseline released today may have looked largely the same as in February's report...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Launches Long-Term Care Initiative
The enormous cost of providing long-term care represents a major challenge for America's health system, and a major funding challenge for Medicaid...
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Health Care Reforms in Chairman Paul Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) FY 2015 budget achieves $3 trillion of its $5.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years...
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SGR Continues to Slow Health Care Cost Growth
The Senate voted 64-35 today to approve a 12-month temporary “ doc fix” to push back the impending nearly 25 percent cut to Medicare physician...
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Gimmick in Doc Fix Patch Should Be Replaced with Real Savings
Congress is considering another 12-month doc fix, averting a 24 percent cut in Medicare physician payments scheduled for April 1. While the SGR patch...
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One-Year Doc Fix Emerges
(Updated to incorporate new information from the Congressional Budget Office's score of the doc fix bill) In lieu of a permanent agreement and with...
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Administration Softens Sequester Impact on Health Reform Again
A new rule proposed by the administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would effectively eliminate the sequester for another...
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CBO: Senate "Doc Fix" Would Add $215 Billion to the Debt
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the fiscally irresponsible Senate “doc fix” bill, showing it would increase Medicare...
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Unpaid-for Doc Fix Could Cost Trillions over Long Run
Proposals to "pay for" (or not pay for) a repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula have come out this week, and the verdict has been mostly...
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Actually, The SGR Has Slowed Health Care Cost Growth
To bolster their case against offsetting the high cost of SGR reform, many have claimed that the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is “ budget...
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Three Out of Four Doc Fix Plans Would Worsen the Debt
Note: This blog has been updated from its original posting to include the CBO score of the Senate Republican proposal. With the current "doc fix" set...
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Administration Does About-Face on Fate of ACA Cost-Sharing Subsidies
The administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its report to Congress on Monday detailing the sequester’s impact on mandatory...