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The PREP Plan: A Permanent Fix for the Sustainable Growth Rate
Read moreOn April 1 of this year, physicians face a 21 percent cut to their Medicare payments resulting from the return of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)...
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CBO Releases New Baseline Ahead of President's Budget Estimate
Read moreIn advance of its scheduled release of an analysis of the President's budget, CBO has updated its budget projections for the next ten years. Their new...
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CRFB's Taxpayer Receipt in USA Today
Read moreDid you know that nearly 75 dollars out of every 100 dollars in taxes paid goes to just four major areas? Monday’s USA Today front page featured data...
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Rattner Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee on Tax Fairness
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on how best to achieve "tax fairness" as a part of their larger focus on tax reform. Testifying...
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Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Read moreCongress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...
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Congress May Kick the Can Again on the Doc Fix
Read moreRepeating a story heard many times before, in a speech at a Federation of American Hospitals conference, House Ways And Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI...
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King v. Burwell and the Federal Budget
Read moreThe Supreme Court ruling on the King v. Burwell case being argued before the Court today will have major policy and political ramifications that have...
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CBO and BPC Predict Debt Ceiling Deadline Not Until the Fall
Read moreOctober or November -- that's the deadline by which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts lawmakers must increase the debt...
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Financial Report of the U.S. Government Shows Bleak Picture
Read moreEvery year, the Treasury Department releases the Financial Report of the United States Government, which provides a detailed picture of the government...
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Fisher, Gregg, and Weinstein: A Prescription for What's Ailing ACOs
Read moreDr. Elliott Fisher, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Dr. James Weinstein penned an op-ed published in Modern Healthcare discussing the need to...
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Keith Hall Appointed as Next CBO Director
Read moreSpeculation over the next director of the Congressional Budget Office ended today as the House and Senate Budget Committees announced that Keith Hall...
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Lorenzen: Comprehensive Social Security Reform is Best to Address SSDI Insolvency
Read moreEd Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified Wednesday in front of the Ways and Means Social Security...