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Medicaid Physician Payments Add to Year-End Uncertainty
Read moreWhen we talk about policy uncertainty these days, most of the time we are referring to the fiscal cliff. However, several other policies remain in...
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Health Care Solutions that Work in the Real World
Read moreThis morning, the National Coalition on Health Care held a forum in the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Innovations in Health Care Delivery...
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Would Raising the Retirement Age Crowd Out Young Workers?
Read moreOne of the criticisms of raising the retirement age is the belief that older workers delaying retirement may "crowd out" younger workers and cause...
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Omissions and Clarifications From Our Fact-Checking
Read moreWe did our best to live fact-check the first presidential debate on Twitter, laying out the facts on fiscal issues. Of course, time constraints and...
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Event Recap: The Imperative of Entitlement Reform and Health Care Cost Control
Read moreIn the fourth and final event in the series Strengthening of America, "The Imperative of Entitlement and Health Care Cost Growth," former Members of...
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A Healthy Debate on the Medicare Age
Read moreA column in The Wall Street Journal today asks "Should the Eligibility Age for Medicare Be Raised?" Taking the " yes" side is CRFB president Maya...
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Wessel: With Health Care It's About How, Not How Much
Read moreWe have talked before about the long run unsustainable growth of our health care spending. But when it comes to controlling Medicare and Medicaid...
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U.S. Budget Watch: How Much Are Medicare Benefits "Paid For"?
Read moreAs the presidential campaigns have turned their attention to Medicare (which we analyzed two weeks ago), each one frames the issue as protecting...
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Two Different Takes on Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Read moreToday, The New England Journal of Medicine published an interesting contrast of health proposals from leading health policy experts representing the...
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Updated Estimates of the Affordable Care Act
Read moreToday, the Congressional Budget Office released two reports revising estimates for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The first report provides updated...
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The Budgetary Impact of States Opting Out of the Medicaid Expansion
Read moreLast week, the Supreme Court released its ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). As the initial...
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What the Supreme Court Decision Means for the Budget
Read moreToday, the Supreme Court announced its ruling on the constitutionality of the 2010 healthcare law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...