Health Care

One source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, President Trump argued against making cuts to Social Security and Medicare. At the time, we showed that...

This week's issue of The Economist featured an interview with President Donald Trump covering economic, health, tax, and trade policy. We factchecked...

In an interview yesterday on the Fox Business Network, President Trump described how it is better to do health care reform before tax reform because...

Much of the news coverage on the interplay between health care and tax reform claims the failure to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) makes tax...

Dan Crippen served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1999 to 2003 and is currently a member of the board of the Committee for a...

Update (3/27/2017): After publication, CBO released a score for H.R. 1215 - the Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017. This blog has been updated to...

The House Rules Committee released two manager's amendments to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday evening in advance of their scheduled...

House Republican leaders have introduced an ACA replacement bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...

Update (3/21/2017): These numbers are relevant for the original version of the American Health Care Act. An amended version was released on March 20...

As policymakers debate repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), disagreement remains over how to address the ACA's "...