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New Approaches to Social Security Benefit Taxation
Read moreSocial Security’s retirement fund is on course to go insolvent in just six years; a few months later, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is...
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Health Fraud Bill Would Save $168 Billion
Read moreWhen it comes to fighting fraud, sometimes you have to spend money to save money. Last week, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX)...
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CMS Proposes Site-Neutral and 340B Reform
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its proposed Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule that...
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Saving MEDICARE Act Would Dramatically Reduce MA Overpayments
Read moreRepresentative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and 44 cosponsors recently introduced the Saving Medicare Enrollees from Deceptive Insurers and Creating Ample...
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Intergovernmental Transfers (IGTs) Can Inflate Federal Medicaid Matching Funds
Read moreThe Medicaid program provides health insurance to roughly 70 million lower-income Americans and is jointly financed by states and the federal...
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Maya MacGuineas: Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable. Kansas, Missouri need action
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Kansas City Star, an...
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Event Recap: Checking in on the Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds
Read moreOn June 10, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an online webinar, Checking in on the Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds. The...
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Analysis of the 2026 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds, showing both face serious...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2026 Reports
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today, finding that both programs have significantly worse financial outlooks...
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The Next Doc Fix is Coming
Read moreCongress has now kicked off this year’s “Doc Fix” process, an increasingly annual occurrence where they provide ad-hoc pay increases to physicians...
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Ways & Means Zeroes in on Hospital Costs
Read moreLast week, the Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing on the high cost of hospital care with leaders of various health systems. Over the course of...
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CMS Abandons Efforts to Rein in Medicare Costs
Read moreAfter proposing meaningful reforms to reduce Medicare Advantage (MA) overpayments in January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...