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Moving to Site Neutrality in Commercial Insurance Payments
Read moreHospital care is the largest single source of expenditures within the health care system, driven in large part by high prices. One factor behind those...
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Site-Neutral Payments Would Lower Private Health Costs, Encourage Competition
Read moreThe Health Savers Initiative recently published “Moving to Site Neutrality in Commercial Insurance Payments,” which examines the market inefficiencies...
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BCBSA Offers Options to Reduce Health Care Costs
Read moreRecently, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) released a plan to lower health care costs that focuses primarily on reducing the high prices...
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Tax Policy Center Estimates Medicare Revenue Proposals
Read moreThe Tax Policy Center (TPC) recently published a report on “Options for Increasing Medicare Revenues.” This report identifies 12 options to increase...
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White House Should Stop Demagoguing Social Security and Medicare
Read moreWhite House spokesperson Andrew Bates today described commissions to save the Social Security and Medicare programs from insolvency as a “death panel...
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CBO's Budget Options to Improve Trust Fund Solvency
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its latest Options for Reducing the Deficit reports, outlining 76 policy options across two...
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Event Recap: Health Solutions Summit
Read moreOn December 15, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted our Health Solutions Summit: Options for the Next Congress. With the cost of...
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CBO Releases 2022 Budget Options Report
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2023 to 2032 report this week, outlining 76 policy options and...
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Groups Urge Congress to Avoid Inflationary Medicare Spending
Read moreAs Congress considers year-end legislation, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget joined with Employ America and Paragon Health, two...
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Making Trust Funds Solvent Would Substantially Reduce Debt Growth
Read moreIn July, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that federal debt held by the public would nearly double as a share of the economy over three...
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Increased Year-End Health Care Spending Could Worsen Inflation
Read morePolicymakers are currently discussing a number of policy changes for potential inclusion in an end-of-year package attached to government funding that...
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Year-End Borrowing Could Worsen Deficits and Inflation
Read moreWith inflation surging and debt approaching record levels, policymakers should avoid worsening the deficit and should at least pledge to add no new...