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The Case for Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Marc Goldwein recently appeared on the “Open to Debate” podcast to discuss the benefits of raising...
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Restoring Trust Fund Solvency Would Reduce Long-Term Debt Growth
Read moreRestoring solvency to the major trust funds would reduce one-half to four-fifths of the projected debt-to-GDP growth over the next three decades. The...
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CBO: Social Security is Ten Years from Insolvency
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published detailed long-term projections for Social Security that project the financial outlook for the...
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Marc Goldwein: Pulling Levers to Prevent Cuts to Social Security Benefits
Read moreMarc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He was recently featured in a...
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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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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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Principles for Social Security Reform
Read moreSocial Security will be insolvent in as little as a decade. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the combined trust funds’ reserves will be...