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Senate Committee on Aging Holding Hearing on Medicare Reform
CRFB President Maya MacGuineas and former CBO director and current CRFB board member Douglas Holtz-Eakin will be testifying in front the Senate...
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Two Letters to the Super Committee on Defense and Medicare
Two more submissions have recently been made to the Super Committee, adding to what is becoming an interesting list of ideas for them to draw...
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A Look at Medigap Reforms
The Washington Post had an editorial yesterday supporting efforts to restrict first-dollar coverage for Medigap. Medigap is a form of private...
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Lieberman and Coburn Urge Super Committee to Take Up Medicare
The submissions keep on coming. Now, Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) have sent a letter to the Super Committee, pressing them to...
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Health Care Versus Aging
As we explained in our recent analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, the debt is on an unsustainable path. Only a decade from now, under their...
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Yes, Fix the SGR, But Pay for It Too
The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), the formula which sets provider payments for physcians under Medicare and which was originally enacted in 1997...
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Actually, Raising the Medicare Age is Also a Good Idea
Update: As it turns out, increasing the Medicare age actually improves benefits for low-income seniors, thus helping to most disadvantaged. Since...
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Defending IPAB
Today, CNN Money featured a piece from the Concord Coalition's Josh Gordon, who argued against repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB)...
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Senator Lieberman Proposes Medicare Reform
Update: Estimates updated Today, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) proposed a plan to reform Medicare, but to do so working within the current system...
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USA Today on TRICARE
Today's edition of USA Today features an editorial advocating increasing premiums for military retirees enrolled in TRICARE. The editorial correctly...