Since 2003 Congress has enacted temporary “patches” to prevent cuts in Medicare’s physician reimbursements. This is necessary because ...
With a sharp drop in the federal deficit last year and voters disgusted with Washington’s budget showdowns, there ...
As more people gain health insurance coverage, policymakers should focus their efforts on making the health care system ...
As more people obtain health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges and its expansion of Medicaid -- ...
Leaders in both parties say they don’t want to see the United States default on any of its ...
The State Budget Crisis Task Force says some federal deficit-reduction efforts have aggravated structural problems in the budgets ...
The $1.1 trillion spending bill for Fiscal 2014, signed into law late last week by President Obama, demonstrates ...
Many state and local governments have done little to address growing structural problems in their budgets that have ...
Health care spending over the past four years grew at the slowest rate in more than half a ...
Lawmakers hope to finally finish work this week on a $1.012 trillion spending package for Fiscal 2014, which ...
A new report by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...
IRS National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson released her annual report last week, saying that additional funding could ...