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Why the Health Care Slowdown Is Unlikely to Last
Read moreLast month, we looked at reasons why some projections showing a slowdown health care costs most likely will not pan out. Although the recent slowdown...
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CBPP Takes a Look at the President's Chained CPI Proposal
Read morePreviously on The Bottom Line, we have shown how the chained CPI could be a 6 percent benefit cut or a 25 percent benefit increase, depending on how...
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The Bipartisan Path Forward's Medicare Buy-in
Read moreIn an effort to bridge differences in long-term structural reforms to federal health spending, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson...
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"A Bipartisan Path Forward" and the Long Term
Read moreErskine Bowles and Alan Simpson's new plan, " A Bipartisan Path Forward to Securing America's Future," saves $2.5 trillion to $2.85 trillion over the...
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CBO Takes a Look at the CPI-E
Read moreOpponents of the chained CPI often propose an alternative index for cost-of-living adjustments, the experimental CPI for Americans 62 years of age and...
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How Simpson and Bowles Plan to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
Read moreIn 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
Read moreEarlier 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"
Read moreToday, 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
Read moreA 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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