Federal Budget

Debt Limit Increase Offers an Opportunity to Enact Positive Reforms

Before leaving town in December, Congress raised the statutory debt limit by $290 billion to $12.39 trillion. This ...

Health Care

Health Care Reform: End Game Fiscal Considerations

I. Introduction With the House having passed its version of health care reform (H.R. 3962) and the Senate on ...

Rockefeller Amendment Would Strengthen Cost Control in Senate Health Care Legislation

Health care legislation currently being debated in the Senate creates a new Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB). The ...

The Importance of a Cost Control Enforcement Entity in Health Care Reform Legislation

I. Health care savings: trust but verify I. Health care savings: trust but verify Despite the contentious nature of ...

Looking Beyond the Reserve Fund: Cost Control Must Do More Than Pay For Expanded Health Insurance Coverage

By David Koitz This is Issue #6 in The Concord Coalition Series on Health Care and Medicare. For ...

The President’s Statutory PAYGO Proposal

Introduction Introduction President Obama has proposed a law requiring pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budgeting for new entitlement spending, including health care ...

Electronic Record Keeping, Wellness Programs, and Care Coordination -- Would They Yield Real Savings, And When?

By David Koitz This is Issue #5 in The Concord Coalition Series on Health Care and Medicare. For ...

The Stubborn Rise in Medicare Physician and Contractor Expenditures

By David Koitz This is Issue #4 in The Concord Coalition Series on Health Care and Medicare. For the ...

Sowing Containment of Medicare Expenditures

By David Koitz This is Issue #3 in The Concord Coalition Series on Health Care and Medicare. For the ...

The Long-Range Forecasts for Health Care Costs: Ominous and Maybe Even Optimistic

By David Koitz This is Issue #2 in The Concord Coalition Series on Health Care and Medicare. For the ...