Health Care

Among the proposals that the budget committee is rumored to be considering to replace a small part of the sequester is an extension of a reduction in...

As the conferees met yesterday, any doubt that we can afford to wait on the long-term debt problem should have quickly been erased after CBO Director...

It's no secret that a significant portion of the federal budget is devoted to our national defense and insurance programs like Social Security...

The Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, last week, released a bipartisan, bicameral discussion draft of a proposal to permanently...

Yesterday, the Social Security Administration announced that beneficiaries will be receiving a 1.5 percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) this year...

In an op-ed in POLITICO yesterday, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle argued that the upcoming conference committee was the perfect time to...

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) dramatically lowered its estimate of savings if policymakers chose to increase the Medicare...

As we explained this morning, the House of Representatives recently passed a continuing resolution funding the government at FY 2013 levels through...

Update: The second graph has been corrected to show the correct year for each line. It is no secret that the growth of federal health care spending is...

The Congressional Budget Office, on Friday, estimated that the Energy & Commerce Committee’s (E&C) bill to permanently replace the flawed Sustainable...

The current volume-based reimbursement that pervades America’s health care system encourages more, not better, care and is driving up spending at an...

In an effort to help address the unsustainable growth of our health care programs, a few legislators are reaching across the aisle in an effort to...