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How Simpson and Bowles Plan to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
In their new deficit reduction proposal, A Bipartisan Path Forward, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs former Senator Al Simpson (R-WY) and Erskine...
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Comparing the Bipartisan Path to Other Budget Proposals
Earlier today, Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released a new comprehensive debt reduction plan with $2.5 trillion of...
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Simpson and Bowles Release "A Bipartisan Path Forward"
Today, the former co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Erksine Bowles, released " A Bipartisan Path Forward to...
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Bipartisan Policy Center's $560 Billion Plan to Lower Health Care Costs
A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Health Care Cost Containment Initiative was released today containing roughly $560 billion in...
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House Ways and Means Looks at the Chained CPI
Today, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing on using the chained CPI to determine Social Security cost-of-living...
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How The President's Budget Would Look In 2023
Our next blog post in our series analyzing the President's budget will look at where the budget leaves revenue and spending by the end of the decade...
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Line Items: Late Filing Edition
Taxing Time – This week was initially about the federal tax filing deadline, but the tragedies in Boston and Texas have shifted attention away from...
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Live: Ways and Means Holds Hearing on Chained CPI
Tune in now as the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security holds a hearing focusing on the use of the chained CPI to...
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How Does the President Achieve His Health Care Savings?
Included in the President’s FY 2014 budget proposal is a $400 billion package of health care savings. As we described in our analysis of his budget...