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Supporting Price Transparency to Reduce Health Care Costs
Read moreIn their newly proposed Great Healthcare Plan, the Trump Administration calls for “maximizing price transparency.” This builds on recent efforts from... -
White House Releases "Great Healthcare Plan"
Read moreToday, the Trump Administration released the Great Healthcare Plan, a legislative framework designed to lower health care costs and address the... -
WSJ: The Next Class of Senators Won't Be Able to Dodge the Social Security Crunch
Read moreIn a recent Wall Street Journal article, Richard Rubin highlighted an important fact: the Social Security retirement trust fund is projected to become... -
Reference Pricing for the FEHB
Read moreHealth care spending represents about 18% of the nation’s economy and the largest area of federal spending. High and rising health care costs are... -
House Passes Deficit-Reducing Health Bill
Read moreThe House passed the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. The bill – one of more than a dozen plans released in recent weeks ahead of the... -
The Case for Funding ACA Cost-Sharing Reductions
Read moreThe House is scheduled to vote today on the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. Among other provisions, the legislation requires the... -
Senate ACA Plan Could Add $350-$635 Billion to Debt
Read moreUpdate 12/10/2025: In place of the proposal described below, the Senate is now expected to vote on a clean three-year extension of the enhanced... -
Fixing Medicare Physician Payments
Read moreMedicare pays physicians in traditional fee-for-service through the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which sets specific payment amounts for more than 10... -
Understanding the ACA Subsidy Discussion
Read moreAs policymakers continue to debate what’s next for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, there has been significant confusion over how the... -
WATCH - Erskine Bowles: We Can Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreErskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal... -
Event Recap: Saving the Trust Funds
Read moreOn October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare. The event... -
Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreOn October 22, 2025, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Savings the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare, an...