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Senate Finance Subcommittee Holds Hearing on the Medicare Trust Fund

The Senate Finance Committee's Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Subcommittee held a hearing on February 2, 2022, regarding the Medicare...

Build Back Better Drug Reforms Would Lower Costs

The House-passed Build Back Better Act includes several reforms to reduce prescription drug costs for the federal government, seniors, and the public...

The Physician Bonus and Medicare Sequester Suspension Should Not be Continued

A lobbying campaign recently began to extend two temporary COVID-era increases in Medicare provider payments – the Medicare sequester hiatus and...

House ACA Plan Will Cost Almost $600 Billion and Cover 4 Million People, CBO Finds

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released estimates for the health care coverage provisions in the House reconciliation bill. CBO...

Health Savings Can Help Pay for Reconciliation

Policymakers are continuing to negotiate the "Build Back Better Act" reconciliation package and the overall size and scope of both the tax and...

Limiting the Cost of Medicare Expansion

As Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...

Event Recap: What's Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds?

On September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...

Analysis of the 2021 Medicare Trustees' Report

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term financial state of those programs. The reports are the first...

Trustees Show Limited Time to Save Social Security and Medicare

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...