Why Does It Cost $230 Billion to Repeal Health Reform?
Last spring, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the new health legislation would reduce the deficit by $143 billion over ten years. Yesterday, CBO estimated that repealing that legislation...
View ArticleSix Think Tanks Tackle the Budget Deficit
Today, at the request of the Peterson Foundation, an ideologically diverse group of six think tanks proposed their long-term solutions to the federal deficit problem. Not surprisingly, they disagreed...
View ArticleMedicare Vouchers Won’t Reduce Health Spending
The House Republican plan to replace Medicare with vouchers could lower national health spending in only one of two ways: Either seniors would respond to higher out-of-pocket costs by using less—or...
View ArticleAre Advanced Premium Assistance Tax Credits Workable?
In just a few years, the 2010 health reform law will begin providing subsidies to help low- and moderate-income people buy health insurance. And that assistance is supposed to be delivered through tax...
View ArticleLen Burman’s Brief for a Health Care VAT
In the cover essay in the current issue of The Milken Institute Review, Len Burman calls for a Value-Added Tax (VAT) to pay for government health care costs.Len, the director of Tax Policy Center (and,...
View ArticleEstimates and the Economy: Let the Buyer Beware
The CBO, the ACA, and the economy: Precision doesn’t mean accuracy. Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office projected that repeal of the Affordable Care Act would add $137 billion to the national...
View ArticleWho benefits from health-care related tax expenditures?
This post is part of the Tax Policy Center’s new series, Tax Line, which digs into the data behind the day’s most pressing tax policy issues. You can read all posts in this monthly series by clicking...
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