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Social Security Only 16 Years From Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today, showing the Medicare Part A trust fund will be insolvent in seven years...
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Quick Take: Social Security & Medicare Headed For Insolvency in 16 & 7 Years
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their programs. Both reports show the programs need to...
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Does the President's Budget Slash Medicare by $845 Billion?
Read morePresident Trump's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget released Monday has been met with significant criticism, especially from us. But one of the most widely...
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Bipartisan Recommendations to Reduce Health Spending from Brookings and AEI
Read moreExperts from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute have released a joint list of recommendations to reduce health care costs...
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Health Spending Outlook Shows Faster Growth Ahead
Read moreThe Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections through 2027, showing health...
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How Much Will Medicare for All Cost?
Read moreRepresentative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a co-chair of the Medicare for All Caucus, released a bill today that would adopt a single-payer system, where...
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House to Vote on $100 Billion Lame Duck Tax Package
Read moreThe House will likely consider a package of lame duck tax cuts costing almost $100 billion over ten years. About half of the cost comes from delaying...
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Beware the Budget Busters in the Lame Duck
Read moreThe lame duck Congress will return to Washington with an important to-do list that includes either finishing the seven unfinished appropriation bills...
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CMS Takes Some Steps to Improve Medicare Payments
Read moreOver the past two months, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed or issued several new rules aimed at reducing costs and...
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Proposed Senate Point of Order Would Limit Health Care Proposals in Budget Reconciliation
Read moreFor Immediate Release Today, 12 senators introduced a proposal that would establish a new Senate point of order to restrict the types of changes that...
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House to Vote on $90 Billion of Tax Cuts
Read moreThe House of Representatives is voting this week on three bills targeting health care-related tax provisions and expanding the use of Health Savings...
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Ways and Means Committee Considering $92 Billion of Tax Cuts
Read moreThe House Ways and Means Committee today is marking up a package of 11 tax bills related to health care. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)...