Health Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will receive an 8.5 percent payment...

The Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will be insolvent within five years according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the...

Though most COVID relief has already been spent, several policies continue to provide ongoing financial support and could be renewed again by Congress...

The Heritage Foundation recently released their 2022 Budget Blueprint, a list of over 200 specific policy proposals that would “roll back excessive...

UPDATE 12/10: Since this analysis was published, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has issued a correction to their initial estimate of H.R. 5376...

Last week, the White House released a $1.75 trillion framework for the reconciliation bill currently working its way through Congress. When combined...

As negotiations over President Biden’s Build Back Better reconciliation package continue, lawmakers are reportedly considering an extension of the...

Policymakers are continuing to negotiate the "Build Back Better Act" reconciliation package and the overall size and scope of both the tax and...

As Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...

As lawmakers negotiate the details of their reconciliation package, they will need to scale back some of their ambitions to prevent arbitrary policy...

On September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...