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Senate Insulin Proposal to Increase Prescription Drug Costs
Read moreThe Senate may soon vote on the bipartisan Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act, a bill designed to cap...
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Strategies to Lower Health Care Prices from KFF
Read moreAlthough most federal health spending goes to Medicare and Medicaid, the government is projected to lose over $350 billion of income and payroll tax...
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Reducing Drug Prices and the Tax Gap
Read moreAs lawmakers negotiate a possible reconciliation bill, they should look to offsets from the House-passed Build Back Better Act (BBB) to help fund new...
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Ten Options to Secure the Medicare Trust Fund
Read moreNote: The first paragraph and the table have been updated from the original version to reflect the 2022 Medicare Trustees' Report and the May 2022 CBO...
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VA Bill Will Cost Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
Read moreThe Senate is expected to vote on the Honoring our PACT Act this week, which would add at least $277 billion to deficits through 2031 and would...
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Social Security and Medicare Are Approaching Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds today. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...
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Trustees: Social Security and Medicare Headed for Insolvency in 13 and 6 Years
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their 2022 reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs. The...
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CBO Updates Major Trust Fund Baselines
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its projections last week on the financial status of the major trust funds for Medicare Hospital...
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Medicare Advantage Costs Continue to Rise
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will receive an 8.5 percent payment...
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Can Post-Acute Care Reforms Save the Medicare Trust Fund?
Read moreThe Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will be insolvent within five years according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the...
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Time to Wind Down Remaining COVID Relief
Read moreThough most COVID relief has already been spent, several policies continue to provide ongoing financial support and could be renewed again by Congress...
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Heritage Foundation Releases 2022 Budget Blueprint
Read moreThe Heritage Foundation recently released their 2022 Budget Blueprint, a list of over 200 specific policy proposals that would “roll back excessive...