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Primary Care: Estimating Democratic Candidates’ Health Plans
Read moreSenator Bernie Sanders released a new set of proposals to offset the cost of his health care plan this week. Based on these new proposals, we have...
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The President's Budget Saves Medicare $600 Billion While Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs
Read moreLast year, numerous politicians and outlets repeated the false and misleading claim that the President’s FY 2020 budget cut Medicare benefits by $845...
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GAO: Fiscal Sustainability Is a Growing Concern for Some Key Federal Trust Funds
Read moreLast week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the financial health of the nation’s federal trust funds. Requested by...
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Support for TRUST Act Grows
Read moreThe Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act, or the TRUST Act, was introduced last fall on a bipartisan basis in both chambers of Congress to...
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Budget Deal Shows Bipartisan Failure of Leadership
Read moreFor Immediate Release Later today, President Trump is expected to sign into law a $1.4 trillion spending package, appropriated through two bipartisan...
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Appropriations Deal Will Cost $2.1 Trillion Over 20 Years
Read moreThe appropriations deal's numerous deficit-increasing policies, most notably its permanent repeal of three Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes, would cost...
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Spending Package Could Add $500 Billion to Debt
Read moreUpdate 12/17/19: CBO and JCT have now estimated the year-end spending package after a late-night addition by the House Rules Committee. The bill now...
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Maya MacGuineas: Utah Statesmen Seek to Fix Our Most Pressing Problems
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Watch: Opportunities for Lowering Health Care Costs
Read moreOn November 21, we hosted a major event on reducing health care costs for families, businesses, and the federal government. The event featured two...
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and West Health Launch Health Savers Initiative
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the West Health Policy Center have launched the Health Savers Initiative, a...
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Could Medicare for All be Financed Entirely by Cutting Defense Spending?
Read moreLast week, The New York Times published an op-ed entitled “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All’ .” In it, Lindsay Koshgarian...
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Would Medicare for All Require a Middle-Class Tax Hike?
Read moreWith several 2020 presidential candidates endorsing a move to single-payer health care ( Medicare for All), there is an ongoing debate over whether...