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May 25, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care

Reducing Private Health Care Costs

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Apr 2, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care

Event Recap: New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs

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Dec 20, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Taxes

House to Vote on $100 Billion Lame Duck Tax Package

The House will likely consider a package of lame duck tax cuts costing almost $100 billion over ten years. About half of the cost comes from delaying...
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Nov 9, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care

Momentum for Lower Drug Prices Emerging

Policymakers have been quietly making progress on lowering drug prices in recent weeks. Most notably, the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Oct 25, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care

Marc Goldwein and Mark Litow: The fate of American health-care reform is on the ballot this November

Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Mark Litow is the...
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Sep 13, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Taxes

House to Consider Another $59 Billion of Tax Cuts

The House will likely consider a package of health-related tax cuts this week, separate from the permanent extension of the 2017 tax law considered...
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Sep 6, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care

CMS Takes Some Steps to Improve Medicare Payments

Over the past two months, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed or issued several new rules aimed at reducing costs and...
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Aug 1, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care

Proposed Senate Point of Order Would Limit Health Care Proposals in Budget Reconciliation

For Immediate Release Today, 12 senators introduced a proposal that would establish a new Senate point of order to restrict the types of changes that...
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Jul 25, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Taxes

House to Vote on $90 Billion of Tax Cuts

The House of Representatives is voting this week on three bills targeting health care-related tax provisions and expanding the use of Health Savings...
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Jul 11, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Taxes

Ways and Means Committee Considering $92 Billion of Tax Cuts

The House Ways and Means Committee today is marking up a package of 11 tax bills related to health care. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)...
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Jul 2, 2018 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care

Health Care Spending in the Long-Term Outlook

The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows debt reaching an all-time record as a share of GDP by 2034 and nearly doubling as a...
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