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Another Potential Bipartisan Health Care Reform
Read moreWhile reforming entitlement programs continues to be a critical challenge for policymakers, recent developments suggest that bipartisan support for...
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MedPAC Report Refuels the Need for Medicare Reforms
Read moreIn its annual June report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) explores a number of reforms that could help improve outcomes...
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Lawmakers Not Giving Up on Medicare Reforms
Read moreWhile the latest Medicare Trustees report showed slightly improved projections, the long-term challenges of health care cost growth and population...
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Holtz-Eakin: Medicare Still Needs Reform
Read moreThe recent slowdown of health care spending growth is one of the more positive developments in the budget over the past few years. Despite the...
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A Closer Look at the Medicare Actuary's Alternative Medicare Projections
Read moreEarlier this week, we discussed the new Medicare Trustees projections which project that the Hospital Insurance (HI, or Part A) trust fund will be...
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Medicare Trust Fund Exhaustion Now Set for 2026
Read moreAlong with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...
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WATCH: Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release Their Reports
Read moreAt 11 AM Eastern time, the Social Security and Medicare trustees will release their respective reports on the finances of the two programs over the...
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Energy and Commerce Dips Its Toe Into the SGR Pool
Read moreToday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a small step in the process to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula -- Medicare's...
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The Economist on Entitlement Reform
Read moreNotwithstanding the recent short-term progress in reducing the deficit, our long-term debt outlook remains a problem. Although additional revenue will...
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The Latest on the Affordable Care Act
Read moreAlthough it may be difficult to get an updated comprehensive score of the Affordable Care Act from CBO, CBO has updated its estimate of the coverage...
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Upton and Hatch's Blueprint to Reform Medicaid
Read moreThis week, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce...
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Op-Ed: America's Healthy Path to Fiscal Health
Read moreProject Syndicate | April 30, 2013 Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the...