Use Chained CPI Instead of CPI-W* 15% 15% Use CPI-E Instead of CPI-W*-10%-10% Memo: 20 th Percentile Flat-Rate COLA (1988 Start) 75% 55% Memo: 20 th Percentile Flat-Rate COLA and Employer Compensation ...
Media Coverage Politics Published July 17, 2026 11:19am EDT New bipartisan plan seeks to prevent Social Security benefit cuts before trust fund depletion Read more ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its proposed Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule that includes welcome reforms to site-neutral payments and ...
The Social Security retirement program is just six years from insolvency, according to the program’s trustees. At that point, ...
Federal Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments are set to face an $8 billion annual reduction – more than 50 percent – in 2025, 2026, and 2027. These payments are intended to support ...
Medicare pays physicians in traditional fee-for-service through the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which sets specific payment amounts for more than 10,000 procedures, tests, and imaging codes ...
Social Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust funds are nine years from running out. Without ...
The House’s proposed FY 2027 budget resolution includes reconciliation instructions to four House committees, allowing for up to $95 billion in primary (non-interest) deficit increases over the coming ...
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently joined The Atlantic's "The David Frum Show" podcast with host David Frum to discuss America's fiscal challenges, including ...