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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...
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Revenue Provisions in the President's Budget
For the first time in a few days, Tax Day did actually fall on April 15, so hopefully the tax procrastinators out there were able to get their filing...
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The Sequester and the Baseline
Since the President's budget was released last week, there has been an ongoing debate over how much it saves. We’ve tried to shed light on this...
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Is Chained CPI a 6 Percent Benefit Cut or a 25 Percent Benefit Increase?
With the President proposing switching to the chained CPI to measure inflation, the attack dogs are out. We've written on the merits of moving to the...
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GAO's Long-Term Budget Outlook
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long-term fiscal outlook, presenting both long-term projections and estimates of...