Several high-profile, bipartisan health care reform plans have demonstrated in recent months that there is a developing consensus among fiscal and health care policy experts on the steps needed to move the country towards a less expensive, more effective and…
While Congress last week rushed through a measure to ease the effects of its automatic spending cuts on air travel, it unfortunately failed to fix the damage the budget sequester is inflicting on many other government programs and services.Rather than…
Last Thursday, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Health Care Cost Containment Initiative released a comprehensive plan to increase efficiency and reduce costs while reorienting the nation’s health care system to become more patient-centered. That combination would ideally lead not only…
A House subcommittee heard testimony last week about the possibility of relying on a more accurate measure of inflation for the tax code and cost-of-living adjustments in federal benefits, an idea that The Concord Coalition and many economists support.Use of…
