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Statement for the Record on Reverse the Curse: Skyrocketing Health Care Costs and America’s Fiscal Future
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget submitted a statement for the record pertaining to the House Budget Committee hearing on "Reverse the...
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Supporting Price Transparency to Reduce Health Care Costs
Read moreIn their newly proposed Great Healthcare Plan, the Trump Administration calls for “maximizing price transparency.” This builds on recent efforts from...
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White House Releases "Great Healthcare Plan"
Read moreToday, the Trump Administration released the Great Healthcare Plan, a legislative framework designed to lower health care costs and address the...
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ACA Subsidy Extension Tracker
Read moreWith the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies set to expire soon, several policymakers have proposed plans to extend the enhancements. You can...
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WSJ: The Next Class of Senators Won't Be Able to Dodge the Social Security Crunch
Read moreIn a recent Wall Street Journal article, Richard Rubin highlighted an important fact: the Social Security retirement trust fund is projected to become...
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Reference Pricing for the FEHB
Read moreHealth care spending represents about 18% of the nation’s economy and the largest area of federal spending. High and rising health care costs are...
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House Passes Deficit-Reducing Health Bill
Read moreThe House passed the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. The bill – one of more than a dozen plans released in recent weeks ahead of the...
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The Case for Funding ACA Cost-Sharing Reductions
Read moreThe House is scheduled to vote today on the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. Among other provisions, the legislation requires the...
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Senate ACA Plan Could Add $350-$635 Billion to Debt
Read moreUpdate 12/10/2025: In place of the proposal described below, the Senate is now expected to vote on a clean three-year extension of the enhanced...
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Fixing Medicare Physician Payments
Read moreMedicare pays physicians in traditional fee-for-service through the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which sets specific payment amounts for more than 10...
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Understanding the ACA Subsidy Discussion
Read moreAs policymakers continue to debate what’s next for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, there has been significant confusion over how the...
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WATCH - Erskine Bowles: We Can Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreErskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal...