Health Care

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees have signed off on their respective reports on the financial projections for the two programs, though we...

Charles Blahous's paper on the Affordable Care Act has sparked a lot of buzz, leading to some discussion about "double-counting" the Medicare savings...

Our recent paper on the fiscal cliff details the short-term or longer-term economic problems that the country will face if lawmakers either allow...

Update: Charles Blahous has posted a response to his critics here . Charles Blahous, a Social Security and Medicare Trustee, has released a new report...

Via Wonkblog, Sarah Kliff reports on an initiative by nine medical specialty groups to identify procedures that they find to be either unnecessary or...

Via Twitter, Tax Policy Center director Donald Marron (@dmarron) makes a good point after reading our analysis last week of the "fiscal cliff" at the...

With Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) new budget comes an interesting piece of good news: an apparent agreement between House Republicans and President...

On this day two years ago, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the first of two pieces of legislation that...

CBO's most recent estimate of the insurance coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act has sparked a debate about how CBO's estimate of ACA has...

Mad, Mad World – There’s enough madness in DC to go around. Lawmakers from opposite parties seem perpetually angry at each other, yet they are moving...

With the House of Repressive getting ready to vote on a full repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the Washington Post Editorial...

In its March baseline, CBO made a number of changes in its projections for health care spending. Given the significance of health spending to the...