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NDAA Includes $150 Billion Deficit-Increasing Program
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreTomorrow, 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
Read moreOne 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
Read moreRestoring 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
Read moreIn 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
Read moreMedicaid 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
Read more6/26/23 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
Read moreThis 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
Read moreBy 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
Read moreOn 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
Read moreThe Paragon Health Institute recently released a report highlighting 12 options to decrease federal health care spending. The report, titled “Turning...