Health Care

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Wall Street Journal criticized plans by Democrats to introduce...

This week, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a short piece disputing the claim that the cost of the so-called “Doc-Fix” –...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: Taking off on Ben Bernanke's testimony before Congress last week...

Congress Extends Unemployment Benefits, Along With the Deficit – Last week Congress extended expanded unemployment benefits, COBRA subsidies, the...

Congress this week demonstrated once again that members aren’t yet willing to embrace the new era of fiscal responsibility that was supposed to start...

They’re Back – Congress returns from its spring recess this week. The Senate is back in session today and the first order of business is a cloture...

The Hill reports that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has promised to block all future spending bills that are not fully “paid for.” He currently is leading...

In today's New York Times, David Leonhardt argues that deep down, Americans tend to view more health care as better care, but that in our quest for...

CRFB received a comment on The Bottom Line the other day, responding to our use of a leaky roof analogy for how health care reform failed to address...

If they Don’t Win It’s the Same – Opening Day presaged much of the same for Washington as the home team was clobbered. The White House hopes that the...

CRFB would like to introduce our " Featured Charts" page where we will highlight important fiscal, economic, health care, and entitlement projection...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times believed that the suits made by various state...