Last year saw the slowest growth in national health care spending since 1960, when such data was first recorded, according to a new report by actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Spending grew by 3.6 percent,…
A new survey of older adults in 11 industrialized countries finds that the Americans “are sicker than their counterparts abroad” and more likely to report problems paying their medical bills and accessing needed health care. Results of the Commonwealth Fund…
Rising compensation costs were a major driver of growth in the defense budget from 2000 to 2014, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Budget authority -- the obligations a federal agency can incur in a…
Congressional appropriators are continuing to negotiate on legislation to fund the government in Fiscal 2015, which began Oct. 1. Since then a stop-gap measure has kept the government open by largely continuing funding at Fiscal 2014 levels. But that measure,…
