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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Brookings's Framework to Bend the Health Care Curve
Read moreYesterday, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings released a new report on reducing health care costs called "Bending the Curve... -
How Simpson and Bowles Protect the Disadvantaged
Read moreAmong the principles outlined by former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles in their new plan A Bipartisan Path Forward... -
Why the Health Care Slowdown Is Unlikely to Last
Read moreLast month, we looked at reasons why some projections showing a slowdown health care costs most likely will not pan out. Although the recent slowdown... -
The Bipartisan Path Forward's Medicare Buy-in
Read moreIn an effort to bridge differences in long-term structural reforms to federal health spending, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson... -
How Simpson and Bowles Plan to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
Read moreIn their new deficit reduction proposal, A Bipartisan Path Forward, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs former Senator Al Simpson (R-WY) and Erskine... -
Bipartisan Policy Center's $560 Billion Plan to Lower Health Care Costs
Read moreA new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Health Care Cost Containment Initiative was released today containing roughly $560 billion in...