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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…

Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, who led a national fiscal commission to a bipartisan set of recommendations in late 2010, have released a new budget plan that shows once again that a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases can…

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…

The new budget plan released recently by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles once again demonstrates that it is possible to bring the deficit under control using a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases without harming the near-term economy. It…

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…

Is the federal budget heading for unsustainable deficits or unsustainable surpluses? It all depends on the long-term assumptions. (more…)

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…

Annual inflation increases are an important part of many government programs, including Social Security. Inflation protection is also provided in many parts of the tax code. But several advocates of fiscal reform – including the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal…