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Kaiser Compares Premium Support Proposals
For those of you who have had trouble keeping track of the many premium support proposals that have come out over the past year, the Kaiser Family...
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Vote to Repeal IPAB Shows Why It's Necessary
Update: CBO has estimated that the IPAB repeal bill (HR 452) would increase spending and deficits by $3 billion from 2013-2022. On Wednesday, the...
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Coburn and Burr Add to Medicare Discussion
Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC) came out with a Medicare proposal today that adds to the list of plans out there to rein in the...
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A Deal to Forget on the Hill
Update: The House has approved the payroll-tax deal 293-132. Just when you thought the conference committee might start agreeing on specific offsets...
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Fiscal Fact Checker: Has the 'Doc Fix' Actually Become More Expensive?
A claim that has been popping up in some news circles over the past day is that the doc fix -- which freezes Medicare payments to physicians, instead...
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A Gimmick on the Rise
Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...
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Two Good Op-Eds From The New York Times
The New York Times had two interesting op-eds over the weekend on two essential components of deficit reduction: tax reform and health care costs...
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Raising Eligibility Ages Is Good for the Budget...and the Economy
Over the past couple of years, we've been arguing that raising the Social Security and Medicare ages could be an important part of a fiscal reform...
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Deja Vu All Over Again...Again: February Edition
Remember when we said last November that Congress had a lot to do by the end of the year? Well, they took care of FY 2012 appropriations, but...
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New York Times Lays Out Medicare Options
In response to the release of the Ryan-Wyden premium support plan last week, The New York Times spelled out options for reducing Medicare spending...
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Ryan and Wyden Offer Ambitious Health Care Proposal
This morning, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled their proposal to significantly change Medicare, one of the...
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Paying for the Extenders
With so many provisions set to expire at the end of the year, CRFB has released a new paper that details what lawmakers have to extend and how they...