Health Care

Unable to pass health care reform using “regular order,” Congressional Democrats now are turning to much-misunderstood process known as “budget...

Yesterday GAO released its annual report on the fiscal outlook for state and local governments and the news is not good. GAO found that that the short...

Highway to Nowhere – Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) has blocked a vote on temporarily extending unemployment and COBRA benefits, the Medicare “doc fix” as...

The President's effort to forge a bipartisan solution to health care reform at today's summit has just started and is televised on C-Span (click here...

Ever since Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, there has been a lot of talk about Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass a comprehensive...

Yesterday, the White House released its version of a health care reform bill to restart the debate on how to reform the country's health care system.

In the table below, CRFB has expanded on a table put together by Think Progress' Wonk Room, comparing select components of the President's proposal to...

Update: The Wonk Room has put together a short table comparing the President's plan to the House and Senate bills. Check it out below. Here it is. At...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times argued that the temporarily higher federal...

Commission Commencement – President Obama signed Thursday the Executive Order officially creating the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times criticized Republican healthcare reform...

Commission Coming – The White House says President Obama will create a fiscal commission by executive order within days. Meanwhile, Republicans still...