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Congress Should Seize Opportunity for Medicare Reform

Mar 18, 2014

The House has passed a bill to reform Medicare payments to providers but doomed the legislation by attaching a 5-year delay in the Affordable Health Care’s individual mandate. A dozen Democrats joined the Republican majority in approving the bill Friday…

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Latest Move Threatens Reform of Medicare Doctor Payments

Mar 10, 2014

As the April 1 deadline to avert a 24 percent cut in Medicare’s payments to physicians approaches, hopes for enacting a permanent reform to the flawed payment formula appear to be dwindling. The sustainable growth rate formula (SGR) that determines…

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Military Pension Reform: Blink and You Missed It

Feb 18, 2014

In a disappointing show of political panic, Congress last week overturned a reasonable reform it passed just last December in future cost-of-living adjustments for military pensions going to working-age beneficiaries. President Obama signed the reversal legislation last weekend.The episode does…

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Skip Budget Gimmicks in Fixing Medicare Payments

Jan 28, 2014

Since 2003 Congress has enacted temporary “patches” to prevent cuts in Medicare’s physician reimbursements. This is necessary because of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) -- a flawed formula for spending on physician services that requires unrealistically large cuts.In April, a…

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Oregon Medicaid Reforms Begin to Show Results

Jan 27, 2014

As more people gain health insurance coverage, policymakers should focus their efforts on making the health care system more efficient so it can meet the increased demand for services.Oregon has experimented with payment and delivery reforms in Medicaid in ways…

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Oregon Experiment with Medicaid Reform Begins to Reap Dividends

Jan 24, 2014

As more people obtain health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges and its expansion of Medicaid -- the federal-state program for low-income individuals -- policymakers should focus on ensuring that the health care system can meet the increased demand…

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Cost Growth Slows in Health Care But Further Steps Needed

Jan 14, 2014

Health care spending over the past four years grew at the slowest rate in more than half a century, according to a new report by by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.It says…

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Health Care Cost Growth Slows, But We Still Need Long-Term Focus

Jan 14, 2014

A new report by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) found that health care spending over the past four years grew at the slowest rate recorded in more than half a century.…

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Fiscal Impacts Vary as Key ACA Provisions Take Effect

Jan 7, 2014

Insurance policies sold on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges went into effect Jan. 1 after a three-month open enrollment period marked by problems on the government’s Healthcare.gov website.The federal government is operating insurance exchanges, also called “marketplaces,” for 36…

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Aging Population, Health Care Squeeze Rest of Budget

Dec 17, 2013

The federal debt held by investors and foreign countries amounts to 72 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. Except for a short period around the end of World War II, that's the highest level in U.S. history.And although the…

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Seizing the Moment on Health Care Costs

Nov 26, 2013

A recent report by the President’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) reviewing the recent slowdown in health care costs examined its potential causes, its sustainability and the economic impact going forward. (more…)

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Smaller Savings Seen For Option to Raise Medicare’s Eligibility Age

Oct 29, 2013

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now estimates that gradually increasing the eligibility age for Medicare to 67 would reduce deficits by $19 billion through 2023, significantly less than the $113 billion CBO estimated in January 2012.The new estimate is based…

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Congress Should Seize Opportunity for Medicare Reform

Latest Move Threatens Reform of Medicare Doctor Payments

Military Pension Reform: Blink and You Missed It

Skip Budget Gimmicks in Fixing Medicare Payments

Oregon Medicaid Reforms Begin to Show Results

Oregon Experiment with Medicaid Reform Begins to Reap Dividends

Cost Growth Slows in Health Care But Further Steps Needed

Health Care Cost Growth Slows, But We Still Need Long-Term Focus

Fiscal Impacts Vary as Key ACA Provisions Take Effect

Aging Population, Health Care Squeeze Rest of Budget

Seizing the Moment on Health Care Costs

Smaller Savings Seen For Option to Raise Medicare’s Eligibility Age

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