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Medicare Trust Fund Exhaustion Now Set for 2026
Along with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...
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WATCH: Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release Their Reports
At 11 AM Eastern time, the Social Security and Medicare trustees will release their respective reports on the finances of the two programs over the...
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Energy and Commerce Dips Its Toe Into the SGR Pool
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a small step in the process to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula -- Medicare's...
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The Economist on Entitlement Reform
Notwithstanding the recent short-term progress in reducing the deficit, our long-term debt outlook remains a problem. Although additional revenue will...
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The Latest on the Affordable Care Act
Although it may be difficult to get an updated comprehensive score of the Affordable Care Act from CBO, CBO has updated its estimate of the coverage...
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Upton and Hatch's Blueprint to Reform Medicaid
This week, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce...
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Op-Ed: America's Healthy Path to Fiscal Health
Project Syndicate | April 30, 2013 Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the...
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Brookings's Framework to Bend the Health Care Curve
Yesterday, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings released a new report on reducing health care costs called "Bending the Curve...
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How Simpson and Bowles Protect the Disadvantaged
Among the principles outlined by former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles in their new plan A Bipartisan Path Forward...
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Why the Health Care Slowdown Is Unlikely to Last
Last month, we looked at reasons why some projections showing a slowdown health care costs most likely will not pan out. Although the recent slowdown...
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The Bipartisan Path Forward's Medicare Buy-in
In an effort to bridge differences in long-term structural reforms to federal health spending, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson...
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How Simpson and Bowles Plan to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
In their new deficit reduction proposal, A Bipartisan Path Forward, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs former Senator Al Simpson (R-WY) and Erskine...