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In their latest updates on Social Security and Medicare, the trustees for the programs include data that show the growing strain they will put on the rest of the federal budget unless Washington can agree on a long-term fiscal sustainability…

One of the central problems with the country’s health care system is that it often shields consumers from costs in ways that provide little incentive to hold them down. In many cases, the consumers do not even know the full…

The AARP has launched a misleading and divisive ad campaign aimed at excluding Social Security and Medicare from any deficit-reduction proposals that might be developed by the new congressional “super committee.”This could have a dramatic negative impact on other government…

Under Paul Ryan’s budget plan, the country’s three big entitlement programs – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – would make up a larger share of non-interest federal spending than they would under the budget President Obama proposed earlier this year.It…

With its August update of the Budget and Economic Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has thrown sand into the political gears of both parties as they hone their fiscal policy arguments for the November elections. (more…)

Good news comes and goes rather quickly in the 2010 Medicare Trustees’ Report, says Concord Executive Director Bob Bixby. The report begins by saying that this year’s health reform bill substantially improved Medicare’s finances. But it also warns that future…

I. Introduction With the House having passed its version of health care reform (H.R. 3962) and the Senate on the verge of passing its version (H.R. 3590), the outline of a final bill is beginning to take shape. It is…

By David Koitz This is Issue #6 in The Concord Coalition Series on Health Care and Medicare. For the rest of the series, click here. (more…)