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House ACA Plan Will Cost Almost $600 Billion and Cover 4 Million People, CBO Finds
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released estimates for the health care coverage provisions in the House reconciliation bill. CBO...
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Health Savings Can Help Pay for Reconciliation
Read morePolicymakers are continuing to negotiate the "Build Back Better Act" reconciliation package and the overall size and scope of both the tax and...
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Limiting the Cost of Medicare Expansion
Read moreAs Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...
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Event Recap: What's Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds?
Read moreOn September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...
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Analysis of the 2021 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term financial state of those programs. The reports are the first...
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Trustees Show Limited Time to Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...
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Trustees: Social Security & Medicare Approaching Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security (our analysis here) and Medicare (our analysis here) Trustees just released their annual reports for 2021 on the financial status...
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Representative Suozzi Introduces the WISH Act
Read moreRepresentative Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) recently introduced the WISH Act, which aims to provide catastrophic long-term care insurance for older Americans...
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Trust Fund Solutions Would Be Pro-Growth
Read moreIn our recent paper “ The Case for Trust Fund Solutions,” we showed that making the Social Security, Medicare, and highway trust funds solvent would...
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Injecting Price Competition into Medicare Part B Drugs
Read moreMedicare Part B, which covers outpatient physician services, pays for physician-administered drugs by reimbursing physicians the average cost for each...
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Limiting Evergreening for Name-Brand Prescription Drugs
Read moreTo encourage medical innovation, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants temporary market exclusivities to new brand name drugs. These...
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Two Ways to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
Read moreHigh and rising prescription drug costs are contributing to the budgetary pressure faced by the federal government. Also, a significant number of...