Health Care

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...

Tomorrow, September 12, CRFB's Moment of Truth Project and the National Coalition on Health Care will host a briefing on Medicare delivery system and...

Today, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and former Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) sent a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp (R-MI) that...

Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual survey on health costs, prompting a wide range of reactions from " Health Care Costs Rise...

The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...

Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride has created an animated chart showing America's age distribution evolve, as far back as 1900 to the current day...

In yesterday's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson explores the unsolved "health spending mystery," whether the recent slowdown in health care spending...