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Moment of Truth Project Releases Policy Paper on Medicare Delivery and Payment System Reforms
The current volume-based reimbursement that pervades America’s health care system encourages more, not better, care and is driving up spending at an...
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Bipartisan Proposal for Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Introduced
In an effort to help address the unsustainable growth of our health care programs, a few legislators are reaching across the aisle in an effort to...
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TOMORROW: Moment of Truth Project to Host Delivery Systems and Payment Reform Briefing with NCHC
Tomorrow, September 12, CRFB's Moment of Truth Project and the National Coalition on Health Care will host a briefing on Medicare delivery system and...
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Returning to the Coburn-Lieberman Medicare Plan
Today, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and former Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) sent a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp (R-MI) that...
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The Health Exclusion and Employer-Based Insurance
Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual survey on health costs, prompting a wide range of reactions from " Health Care Costs Rise...
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CBO Dissects the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown
The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...
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Watch 160 Years of Population Aging...In One Chart
Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride has created an animated chart showing America's age distribution evolve, as far back as 1900 to the current day...
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The Still Unsolved Health Care Mystery
In yesterday's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson explores the unsolved "health spending mystery," whether the recent slowdown in health care spending...
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Ways and Means Committee Continues Work on Entitlement Reform
While everyone is focused on tax reform developments these days, we cannot forget about the need for entitlement reform. In an attempt to devise a...
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Comprehensive Deficit Reduction Need Not Slash Retirement Benefits to Control Spending
A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...
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Life Expectancy, Health, and the Budget
As we've written many times before, the U.S. population is aging and in doing so putting increasing pressure on Social Security, Medicare, and to some...