#Health Care

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated numbers yesterday showing a short-term decline in projected deficits, but elected officials and the public should not be lulled into a false sense of security.“A lower deficit is good news but hardly the…

This is post two of a three-part series on the developing consensus for the next steps on health care reform. Part One is here. Part three is here. (more…)

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…

This is post one of a three-part series on the developing consensus for the next steps on health care reform. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. (more…)

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…

Among budget wonks, there is something of a consensus that the projected upward trajectory of our debt is caused primarily by projected growth in federal health care programs. The short-hand version: The nation’s fiscal challenge is really “just a health…

Among budget wonks who discuss the long-term fiscal challenge, there is something of a consensus -- the projected upward trajectory of our debt is caused primarily by the projected growth in federal health care programs.For some, this consensus has developed…