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The Most Misleading Chart You'll See This Week
Late last week, the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released the annual Economic Report of the President outlining the Administration's latest...
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MedPAC: The Time is Now for SGR Repeal
We've discussed many times before the important role entitlement reform plays in addressing our long-term debt. As the baby boomer generation...
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The Urban Institute's $600 Billion Medicare Reform Package
The Urban Institute's Robert Berenson, John Holahan, and Stephen Zuckerman recently released a very useful paper entitled " Can Medicare Be Preserved...
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Concord Coalition: It's Not Just a Health Care Problem
We've said frequently on this blog that controlling health care spending will be a crucial part of putting the debt on a sustainable path. After all...
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Brookings Rethinks...Medicare
As promised, the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project has released the remaining papers in its series " 15 Ways to Rethink the Budget." We will be...
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Prospects for a Permanent Doc Fix Improve
A popular secondary story from the newest CBO baseline centers on the "doc fix," the patch that prevents a large cut to physician payments due to the...
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150 Ways to Reform Medicare
At nearly $500 billion a year, Medicare is the costliest piece of the federal health care budget. As we’ve discussed before, Medicare spending and...
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Coburn: Reasons to Raise the Medicare Age
Adding to the conversation around reforming federal health spending, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has released a short report on why the Medicare age...
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Hatch's Five Ideas to Reduce Federal Health Spending
Today, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) spoke on the floor of the Senate about the need for health entitlement reforms to be part of a deficit reduction...
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IPAB is Still Necessary
Last Congress, H.R. 452 was introduced in the House to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a 15 member board of Senate-confirmed...
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The Commonwealth Fund's Plan to Tackle Health Spending
Earlier this week, we discussed the recent slowdown of National Health Expenditures (NHE) and how, while promising, it may not last. That means more...
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Another Slow Year for Health Care Cost Growth - Will It Last?
With health care spending a central topic in budget discussions, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a...