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3-Month SGR Fix Proposed
With the end of the year fast-approaching and the looming prospect of a 24 percent cut to Medicare physician payments on January 1, the House of...
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Why Do Doctors Choose a $2,000 Drug Over a $50 One? $117
A good piece in the Washington Post over the weekend takes a look at why Medicare physicians continue to use an expensive drug to help prevent...
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Health Care's Black Friday Sale
Earlier this year, we discussed how the prospects for a permanent fix to the Sustainable Growth Rate formula had improved given CBO's dramatic...
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Will ACA’s Uncompensated Care Payment Reductions be Made Permanent?
Among the proposals that the budget committee is rumored to be considering to replace a small part of the sequester is an extension of a reduction in...
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CBO Director Examines Drivers of Health Care Spending Growth
As the conferees met yesterday, any doubt that we can afford to wait on the long-term debt problem should have quickly been erased after CBO Director...
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An Insurance Conglomerate with a Shrinking Government on the Side, in Three Graphs
It's no secret that a significant portion of the federal budget is devoted to our national defense and insurance programs like Social Security...
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SGR Discussion Draft Coming Together
The Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, last week, released a bipartisan, bicameral discussion draft of a proposal to permanently...
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SSA Announces New COLA
Yesterday, the Social Security Administration announced that beneficiaries will be receiving a 1.5 percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) this year...
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Daschle: Now's the Time for Entitlement Reform
In an op-ed in POLITICO yesterday, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle argued that the upcoming conference committee was the perfect time to...
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CBO Lowers Estimate for Increasing the Medicare Eligibility Age
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) dramatically lowered its estimate of savings if policymakers chose to increase the Medicare...
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CBO Still Unsure Whether Recent Health Care Slowdown Means Lower Long-Term Growth
Update: The second graph has been corrected to show the correct year for each line. It is no secret that the growth of federal health care spending is...
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SGR Bill a Good Start but More Can Be Done for Less
The Congressional Budget Office, on Friday, estimated that the Energy & Commerce Committee’s (E&C) bill to permanently replace the flawed Sustainable...