Health Care

The House-passed Build Back Better Act includes several reforms to reduce prescription drug costs for the federal government, seniors, and the public...

A lobbying campaign recently began to extend two temporary COVID-era increases in Medicare provider payments – the Medicare sequester hiatus and...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released estimates for the health care coverage provisions in the House reconciliation bill. CBO...

Policymakers are continuing to negotiate the "Build Back Better Act" reconciliation package and the overall size and scope of both the tax and...

As Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...

On September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...

The Social Security (our analysis here) and Medicare (our analysis here) Trustees just released their annual reports for 2021 on the financial status...

Representative Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) recently introduced the WISH Act, which aims to provide catastrophic long-term care insurance for older Americans...

In our recent paper “ The Case for Trust Fund Solutions,” we showed that making the Social Security, Medicare, and highway trust funds solvent would...