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…
Is the federal budget heading for unsustainable deficits or unsustainable surpluses?It all depends on the long-term assumptions, as Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby explains in a new blog post that examines contrasting projections from the Government Accountability Office…
Political leadership from both parties is needed to take advantage of the window of opportunity that exists in the next few months to achieve a meaningful deficit-reduction plan. That was a common theme last week from federal budget experts, former…
