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NDAA Includes $150 Billion Deficit-Increasing Program
The Senate-passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 (NDAA) would increase the deficit by $153 billion over a decade...
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Medicaid Provider Taxes Inflate Federal Matching Funds
The Medicaid program, which provides health care to 93 million lower-income Americans, is jointly financed by state governments and the federal...
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More Deficit-Increasing Tax Cuts from the Ways & Means Committee
Tomorrow, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to mark up two bills to expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The bills will reduce revenue...
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Site-Neutral Legislative Proposals Gaining Traction
One of the best ways to reduce health care costs would be to move towards “ site-neutral ” payments and away from the current system’s inefficient...
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Restoring Trust Fund Solvency Would Reduce Long-Term Debt Growth
Restoring solvency to the major trust funds would reduce one-half to four-fifths of the projected debt-to-GDP growth over the next three decades. The...
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New Evidence Suggests Even Larger Medicare Advantage Overpayments
In June, two published studies by the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)...
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Time to Fix Medicaid Financing Schemes
Medicaid is currently the largest health care program in the United States, covering 93 million lower-income adults and children and accounting for...
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Congress is Trying to Have it Both Ways with Telehealth
6/26/23 Update: The Congressional Budget Office released a cost estimate of the legislation allowing telehealth to be covered pre-deductible in HDHPs...
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Key Takeaways from the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement (SITE) Act
This week Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement...
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6 Ways to Reduce Health Care Costs
By JOSH GORDON AND DARBIN WOFFORD This journal article originally appeared in the Milken Institute Review . Here’s some old news that, depressingly...
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Event Recap: Checking in on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds
On April 4, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted "Checking in on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds." The event featured...
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Paragon Health Institute Releases Proposals to Lower Health Care Costs
The Paragon Health Institute recently released a report highlighting 12 options to decrease federal health care spending. The report, titled “Turning...