#Medicare

Social Security and Medicare are important, popular programs on which millions of Americans depend. But both require significant reforms to enable them to deal with rising health costs and aging baby boomers -- and still be able to serve future…

As more baby boomers retire and the over-65 population rises from 12 percent of Americans in 2010 to 25 percent in 2030, paying for their care will become increasingly difficult, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warns in a new report.The…

WASHINGTON -- With today’s Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report showing the growing strain the two programs will have on general revenues in the years ahead, The Concord Coalition strongly urged lawmakers to resume negotiations on a long-term fiscal sustainability…

Any credible health care reform plan that Congress passes must include a meaningful target for restraining long-term cost growth that can be enforced.A number of recent bipartisan health plans, as well as budgets proposed by elected officials in Washington, are…

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

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…

Prominent experts on the federal budget as well as current and former lawmakers honored the late Warren B. Rudman while echoing his calls for broad fiscal reforms in a national conference Monday in New Hampshire. The event was co-hosted by…