Health Care

Today, the Senate Finance Committee is continuing to mark-up the Committee’s health care reform bill. In total, the Committee is considering 564...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released the preliminary analysis of the completed specifications for the Finance Committee’s Chairman’s...

Click here for CRFB's latest comparison chart, along with interactive graphs, comparing the costs and savings of the bill passed by the House to the...

Maya MacGuineas’ opinion piece in Roll Call, Reducing the Budget Deficit Requires More Than Just Health Care Reform, argues that: 1) while it is too...

CQ reports that CBO is likely to score the costs of the Senate Finance Committee health care bill for the second ten year period. This is excellent...

We think triggers can be helpful in budgeting, by providing a back-up plan for when estimates prove wrong or conditions change, and by helping...

A few minutes ago, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to discuss health care reform. Although he talked about a wide array of...

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period.” That is a clear cut pledge, and a very good one...

Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation released a Lewin Group analysis of the current House health care reform bill (America’s Affordable Health...

REVISED: Today, CRFB issued a press release commenting on the President's statement last night on developing a trigger to ensure that any health care...

1. Health reform is first and foremost about controlling costs – There are three major problems people would like to solve through health reform: cost...

Responsible budgeting is always challenging – but it is particularly so when the discussion centers on certain “third rail" issues like seniors...