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Is There a Medicaid Spending Increase Under the Senate Health Bill?
Read morePresident Donald Trump recently claimed on Twitter that Medicaid spending will go up under the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). It is...
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Rudolph Penner: The Attacks On The Congressional Budget Office Are Wrong
Read moreDr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
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CBO Scores the Senate Health Care Bill
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its score of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). This is the Senate's version of...
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Quick Take: The Major Changes in the Senate's AHCA
Read moreSenate Republicans released their draft version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 this morning. This is the Senate version of the American...
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Paying for the Senate's Changes to the AHCA
Read moreSenate Republicans are continuing work on their iteration of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and press reports indicate that senators aim to make...
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A First Look at the CMS Estimate of the AHCA
Read moreThe Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) today...
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Price Confirms Double-Counting in President's Budget
Read moreOne source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...
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How to Reduce Medicare Spending Without Cutting Benefits
Read moreDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, President Trump argued against making cuts to Social Security and Medicare. At the time, we showed that...
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Factchecking Trump on Taxes
Read moreThis week's issue of The Economist featured an interview with President Donald Trump covering economic, health, tax, and trade policy. We factchecked...
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You Can't Pay for Tax Reform with Health Reform
Read moreIn an interview yesterday on the Fox Business Network, President Trump described how it is better to do health care reform before tax reform because...
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Does AHCA Make Tax Reform Easier?
Read moreMuch 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...
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Dan Crippen: Why the CBO’s health bill numbers matter — even if they’re imperfect
Read moreDan 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...