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Senate Insulin Proposal to Increase Prescription Drug Costs
The Senate may soon vote on the bipartisan Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act, a bill designed to cap...
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Strategies to Lower Health Care Prices from KFF
Although most federal health spending goes to Medicare and Medicaid, the government is projected to lose over $350 billion of income and payroll tax...
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Reducing Drug Prices and the Tax Gap
As lawmakers negotiate a possible reconciliation bill, they should look to offsets from the House-passed Build Back Better Act (BBB) to help fund new...
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Ten Options to Secure the Medicare Trust Fund
Note: The first paragraph and the table have been updated from the original version to reflect the 2022 Medicare Trustees' Report and the May 2022 CBO...
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VA Bill Will Cost Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
The Senate is expected to vote on the Honoring our PACT Act this week, which would add at least $277 billion to deficits through 2031 and would...
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Social Security and Medicare Are Approaching Insolvency
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds today. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...
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Trustees: Social Security and Medicare Headed for Insolvency in 13 and 6 Years
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their 2022 reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs. The...
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CBO Updates Major Trust Fund Baselines
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its projections last week on the financial status of the major trust funds for Medicare Hospital...
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Medicare Advantage Costs Continue to Rise
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will receive an 8.5 percent payment...
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Can Post-Acute Care Reforms Save the Medicare Trust Fund?
The Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will be insolvent within five years according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the...
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Time to Wind Down Remaining COVID Relief
Though most COVID relief has already been spent, several policies continue to provide ongoing financial support and could be renewed again by Congress...
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Heritage Foundation Releases 2022 Budget Blueprint
The Heritage Foundation recently released their 2022 Budget Blueprint, a list of over 200 specific policy proposals that would “roll back excessive...