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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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Event Recap: Trust Fund Solutions
Read moreOn February 17, Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and panel of experts to...
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Senate Finance Subcommittee Holds Hearing on the Medicare Trust Fund
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee's Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Subcommittee held a hearing on February 2, 2022, regarding the Medicare...
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Build Back Better Drug Reforms Would Lower Costs
Read moreThe House-passed Build Back Better Act includes several reforms to reduce prescription drug costs for the federal government, seniors, and the public...
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December Sequester Suspension Misses the Mark
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congress is considering legislation that will cancel the PAYGO sequester for 2022, extend temporary COVID-era Medicare payment...
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The Physician Bonus and Medicare Sequester Suspension Should Not be Continued
Read moreA lobbying campaign recently began to extend two temporary COVID-era increases in Medicare provider payments – the Medicare sequester hiatus and...
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House ACA Plan Will Cost Almost $600 Billion and Cover 4 Million People, CBO Finds
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released estimates for the health care coverage provisions in the House reconciliation bill. CBO...
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Health Savings Can Help Pay for Reconciliation
Read morePolicymakers are continuing to negotiate the "Build Back Better Act" reconciliation package and the overall size and scope of both the tax and...
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Limiting the Cost of Medicare Expansion
Read moreAs Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...
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Event Recap: What's Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds?
Read moreOn September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...
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Analysis of the 2021 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term financial state of those programs. The reports are the first...
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Trustees Show Limited Time to Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...