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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...
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CRFB Releases New Health Care Paper
Read moreToday, CRFB released its newest paper outlining options for controlling federal health care costs. Federal health spending is projected to grow at a...
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No Matter What the Supreme Court Rules, Challenges Lie Ahead
Read morePoliticos, policy wonks, and citizens will all be eagerly waiting Monday for a possible Supreme Court’s ruling on the ACA. Speculation in particular...
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Alternative Estimates of the Individual Mandate
Read moreOn Monday, we presented a budgetary analysis of the effect the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act could have on the budget. Naturally...
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How the Supreme Court's Decision on Health Care Reform Could Affect the Budget
Read moreIt is no secret to those following the news that the Supreme Court will soon make a decision on the constitutionality of pieces of the Affordable Care...
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MedPAC's Prescriptions for Medicare
Read moreThe Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its June 2012 report, detailing ways in which Congress can improve Medicare to better...
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Good News for Health Spending?
Read moreActuaries at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services have published a new report detailing their projections for health care spending growth...
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Fiscal Fact Checker (Revisited): CBO's Record on Scoring the Affordable Care Act
Read moreCritics of CBO scoring like to cite past predictions that widely missed the mark. Sometimes, too, critics compare apples to oranges, and that is the...
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A Lively Debate on the Affordable Care Act
Read moreYesterday, Medicare trustee Charles Blahous and former chief economist for Vice President Biden Jared Bernstein had a debate about the fiscal...
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Fixing Medicare Double-Counting
Read moreDonald Marron, who recently wrote a blog post on how budget limits are treated in Congressional rules, wrote a piece today detailing how Medicare Part...