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6 Ways to Reduce Health Care Costs
Read moreBy JOSH GORDON AND DARBIN WOFFORD This journal article originally appeared in the Milken Institute Review . Here’s some old news that, depressingly...
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Event Recap: Checking in on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds
Read moreOn April 4, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted "Checking in on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds." The event featured...
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Paragon Health Institute Releases Proposals to Lower Health Care Costs
Read moreThe Paragon Health Institute recently released a report highlighting 12 options to decrease federal health care spending. The report, titled “Turning...
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Analysis of the 2023 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs have released their annual reports for 2023, updating the financial state of the programs’...
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Time is Running Out to Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds. The Trustees project that Medicare’s...
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Maya MacGuineas: Doing nothing on Social Security and Medicare will be a painful and costly decision
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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CRFB Welcomes Plan to Put Medicare Solvency On the Table
Read moreToday, President Biden previewed a new plan to improve the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund. The plan would increase the...
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Good Management of Medicare Advantage is Not a “Cut” to Medicare
Read moreAlthough politicians often speak of wanting to target “waste, fraud, and abuse” in government programs, there is currently an effort to prevent the...
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Tax Policy Center Estimates Medicare Revenue Proposals
Read moreThe Tax Policy Center (TPC) recently published a report on “ Options for Increasing Medicare Revenues .” This report identifies 12 options to increase...
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White House Should Stop Demagoguing Social Security and Medicare
Read moreWhite House spokesperson Andrew Bates today described commissions to save the Social Security and Medicare programs from insolvency as a “death panel...
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CBO's Budget Options to Improve Trust Fund Solvency
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its latest Options for Reducing the Deficit reports, outlining 76 policy options across two...
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Event Recap: Health Solutions Summit
Read moreOn December 15, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted our Health Solutions Summit: Options for the Next Congress . With the cost of...