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Marc Goldwein Testifies Before Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee
Read moreEarlier today, CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. The hearing, entitled "...
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Alice Rivlin: People who wanted market-driven health care now have it in the Affordable Care Act
Read moreAlice Rivlin is a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget. She has served as a member of the National...
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The Worst Lame Duck Ideas That Can Add $1.5 Trillion to the Debt
Read morePolicymakers are considering using the lame duck session to substantially worsen the nation's budget. A commonly discussed package would add...
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CRFB's Plan to Offset Upcoming Policies
Read moreCongress and the President need to prep for some important upcoming fiscal moments, and CRFB has a plan to help them do just that. The Paying for...
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New CBO Estimates Set the Stage for "Doc Fix" Discussions
Read moreFollowing a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CBO has updated its estimate of various "doc fix" policies to...
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The PREP Plan: Paying for Reform and Extension Policies
Read moreIn the coming months, Congress and the President will face a number of important decisions with significant fiscal implications. Specifically, they...
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Gene Steuerle: Pushing on Air in a Balloon--Health Cost Growth and $1,000 Pills
Read moreDr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...
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Lame Duck To-Do (and Don't) List
Read moreWith the 2014 midterm elections mostly in the books, the current Congress will return from weeks of campaigning to finish some remaining items before...
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Another Way to Look at the Medicare Slowdown
Read moreA recent Health Affairs piece from CRFB's Loren Adler and Adam Rosenberg showed that the prescription drug benefit, Part D, has been responsible for a...
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CBO Report Parses the Reasons for Part D's Slow Growth
Read moreThe last few months have seen a number of new ideas to save money in Part D of Medicare by encouraging more efficient use of drugs by prescription...
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How CBO Accounts for Anti-Fraud Efforts
Read moreFraud -- along with the closely related waste and abuse -- is too often cited as a big factor affecting our high deficits, even though this is not the...