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A Bad Deal on Extenders
Read moreAs soon as the election is over, the lame duck Congress will be pressed to deal with several pieces of must-pass legislation before the end of the...
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Another Way to Look at the Medicare Slowdown
Read moreA recent Health Affairs piece from CRFB's Loren Adler and Adam Rosenberg showed that the prescription drug benefit, Part D, has been responsible for a...
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Do Americans Really Favor a Revenue-Only Approach to Social Security Reform?
Read moreThe National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released a survey last week ( see video of CRFB President Maya MacGuineas at the release event)...
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CBO Report Parses the Reasons for Part D's Slow Growth
Read moreThe last few months have seen a number of new ideas to save money in Part D of Medicare by encouraging more efficient use of drugs by prescription...
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Erskine Bowles: Urgency of Federal Deficit Remains
Read moreErskine Bowles is a former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an...
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McCarthy Suggests Increased Focus on Long-Term Budgeting
Read moreHouse Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tells Politico that his priorities for the next Congress include the budget process, and in particular...
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Social Security is A Little Bit Harder to Secure
Read moreSocial Security's finances are far from secure, and every year that Congress waits before addressing the problem makes it harder to fix. This week...
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Why the 40-Year Average is a Poor Benchmark
Read moreIn response to Howard Gleckman's piece on the FY 2014 deficit where he noted that the budget had returned to "normal," Donald Marron wrote that the...
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CAP Report Warns Against Turning War Spending Into a Slush Fund
Read moreThe Center for American Progress' Katherine Blakeley and Lawrence Korb recently issued a report recommending how lawmakers should wind down war...
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Coburn Publishes Wastebook 2014
Read moreYear after year, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) refuses to simply give lip service to "wasteful government spending" and has instead called out...
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SSDI Hearings Running Behind
Read moreAlthough the Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Patent Office are infamous among federal agencies for the long wait times and lines, their backlogs pale in...
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How CBO Accounts for Anti-Fraud Efforts
Read moreFraud -- along with the closely related waste and abuse -- is too often cited as a big factor affecting our high deficits, even though this is not the...