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Senate Insulin Proposal to Increase Prescription Drug Costs
Read moreThe Senate may soon vote on the bipartisan Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act, a bill designed to cap...
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Reconciliation Should Reduce Deficits, Fight Inflation, and Strengthen Medicare
Read moreAs negotiations have resumed over a potential reconciliation bill, policymakers should maintain focus on combining any new spending and tax breaks...
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CBO Estimates Drug Savings for Reconciliation
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released estimates of the draft text for a prescription drug package that could be part of an upcoming...
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Strategies to Lower Health Care Prices from KFF
Read moreAlthough most federal health spending goes to Medicare and Medicaid, the government is projected to lose over $350 billion of income and payroll tax...
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Reducing Drug Prices and the Tax Gap
Read moreAs lawmakers negotiate a possible reconciliation bill, they should look to offsets from the House-passed Build Back Better Act (BBB) to help fund new...
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Ten Options to Secure the Medicare Trust Fund
Read moreNote: The first paragraph and the table have been updated from the original version to reflect the 2022 Medicare Trustees' Report and the May 2022 CBO...
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VA Bill Will Cost Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
Read moreThe Senate is expected to vote on the Honoring our PACT Act this week, which would add at least $277 billion to deficits through 2031 and would...
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Event Recap: What's New in the 2022 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports?
Read moreOn June 6, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted "What's New in the 2022 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports?". The event...
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Medicare at 60 Costs $155 Billion, According to CBO
Read moreEarlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the budgetary effects of lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 60...
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Analysis of the 2022 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial state of those programs and their respective trust funds. The...
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Social Security and Medicare Are Approaching Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds today. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...
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Trustees: Social Security and Medicare Headed for Insolvency in 13 and 6 Years
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their 2022 reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs. The...