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The Cost of Delay: Employer Mandate Edition
Read moreEarly this month, the Obama Administration announced that it would delay enforcement of the employer mandate penalty in the Affordable Care Act for...
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WaPo to Obama: Don't Ignore Entitlements
Read moreLast week at Knox College, President Obama gave the first of a series of speeches on the economy. He called on Washington to pass policies that would...
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A More Detailed Physician Payment Reform Proposal
Read moreAfter releasing a broad physician payment reform draft, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released a more fleshed out framework to replace...
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Don't Take the Health Exclusion Off the Table
Read moreRecently, there has been some discussion of taking the employer-sponsored health exclusion off the table in tax reform. But for those interested in...
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What the Delay of the ACA's Employer Mandate Means for the Budget
Read moreYesterday, the Obama administration announced the one-year delay of a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires coverage reporting and...
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MY VIEW: Alice Rivlin June 2013
Read moreIn an article from The New England Journal of Medicine, CRFB board member Alice Rivlin along with former Senators Tom Daschle, Pete Domenici, and...
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New Interactive Map: Variations in Medicare Costs
Read moreIt's no secret that getting health care spending under control will be key for the federal budget. Nearly one out of every four federal program...
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The Social Security and Medicare Trustee Reports in Charts
Read moreThe projections in the latest Medicare and Social Security Board of Trustees Report were further proof of the need to reform these important...
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Modernizing the Medicare Benefit
Read moreToday, the Moment of Truth Project has released a new report," Modernizing the Medicare Benefit: A Closer Look at Reforming Medicare Cost-Sharing...
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Another Potential Bipartisan Health Care Reform
Read moreWhile reforming entitlement programs continues to be a critical challenge for policymakers, recent developments suggest that bipartisan support for...
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MedPAC Report Refuels the Need for Medicare Reforms
Read moreIn its annual June report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) explores a number of reforms that could help improve outcomes...
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Lawmakers Not Giving Up on Medicare Reforms
Read moreWhile the latest Medicare Trustees report showed slightly improved projections, the long-term challenges of health care cost growth and population...