Health Care

Today in the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein took the " Deficit Challenge", proposing his own plan on how to reduce future deficits through a...

Policymakers will soon be focusing on passing a new package of extenders and tax breaks that – at a potential cost of around $200 billion over ten...

Admiral Roughead (Navy), General Conway, (Marine Corps) and Admiral Allen (Coast Guard) all took the spending challenge today, arguing that retired...

The Center for American Progress recently discussed what it would take to meet the President's fiscal goal of a primary balance in 2015, or finding...

Last week the Office of the Medicare Chief Actuary came out with their " Estimated Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," as...

Yesterday the Peterson Foundation hosted the Fiscal Summit: America's Crisis and a Way Forward, convening an all-star line-up of fiscal, economic, and...

This week, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a short piece disputing the claim that the cost of the so-called “Doc-Fix” –...

Congress Extends Unemployment Benefits, Along With the Deficit – Last week Congress extended expanded unemployment benefits, COBRA subsidies, the...

Congress this week demonstrated once again that members aren’t yet willing to embrace the new era of fiscal responsibility that was supposed to start...

They’re Back – Congress returns from its spring recess this week. The Senate is back in session today and the first order of business is a cloture...

The Hill reports that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has promised to block all future spending bills that are not fully “paid for.” He currently is leading...

In today's New York Times, David Leonhardt argues that deep down, Americans tend to view more health care as better care, but that in our quest for...