Health Care

A claim that has been popping up in some news circles over the past day is that the doc fix -- which freezes Medicare payments to physicians, instead...

Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...

The New York Times had two interesting op-eds over the weekend on two essential components of deficit reduction: tax reform and health care costs...

Over the past couple of years, we've been arguing that raising the Social Security and Medicare ages could be an important part of a fiscal reform...

Readers of this blog will be familiar with the Zero Plan from the Fiscal Commission's tax reform effort. An article in the newest issue of Health...

Remember when we said last November that Congress had a lot to do by the end of the year? Well, they took care of FY 2012 appropriations, but...

In response to the release of the Ryan-Wyden premium support plan last week, The New York Times spelled out options for reducing Medicare spending...

This morning, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled their proposal to significantly change Medicare, one of the...

With so many provisions set to expire at the end of the year, CRFB has released a new paper that details what lawmakers have to extend and how they...

With the deadline for the Super Committee to come to an agreement nearly here, the Moment of Truth Project, a project of CRFB, has released two new...

In his testimony to the Super Committee, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles floated a compromise plan which would, among other things, reduce...

Last week the federal government announced that 2012 Medicare premiums will increase for most participants by $3.50 per month from $96.40, making 2012...