Health Care

Before Congress leaves for August, they must pass a transportation bill extending highway programs and transferring additional money into the Highway...

There was plenty of focus on the Social Security Trustees' report yesterday, but the Medicare report, released at the same time, contains very...

CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, released last month, included updated projections for Social Security and Medicare, including individuals' expected...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) continues to push forward important delivery system reforms, last week announcing a new...

The Chief Actuary for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the 2014 Medicaid Actuarial Report forecasting Medicaid...

Over the past few weeks, we have been posting in-depth analysis of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Long-Term Outlook. In its supplemental data...

To ameliorate some concerns with the original bill, a revised version of H.R. 6, or the 21st Century Cures Act, was recently released, aiming to...

In a move that could stall promising health care delivery system reforms and drive up entitlement spending, the House Appropriations Committee last...

Health care spending is arguably the most important part of CBO's long-term outlook, being a key driver of our nation's growing debt over the long...

Much of the focus on the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score for repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) naturally has focused on the ten-year...

The main focus of CBO's long-term budget outlook is rightly on the unified budget numbers regarding spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. But it is...

For the first time in nearly three years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the budgetary effect of repealing the...