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Capping Medicaid Spending, Raising Age for Medicare Among Options Explored in CBO Report
Capping federal Medicaid spending, raising the eligibility age for Medicare, and bundling Medicare payments to healthcare providers are some of the federal spending reduction possibilities included in a report by the Congressional Budget Office released Wednesday.
Capping federal Medicaid spending, raising the eligibility age for Medicare, and bundling Medicare payments to healthcare providers are some of the federal spending reduction possibilities included in a report by the Congressional Budget Office (PDF) released Wednesday.
The release of the 316-page document came the same day the joint House and Senate budget conference committee resumed deliberations on fiscal issues with the goal of reaching a broader agreement on spending and taxes to avoid another government shutdown and threat of debt default. The report was unsolicited by Congress and is meant to inform lawmakers about the budgetary implications of various ways to reduce spending or increase revenues, the budgeting agency said. Non-healthcare related proposals included reducing social security benefits for new beneficiaries by 15%, increasing federal insurance premiums for private pension plans, and reducing or eliminating subsidized loans for undergraduate students.
The government is currently operating under legislation that provides funding until Jan. 15 and suspends the borrowing limit until Feb. 7. CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified at the panel and said the report could help lawmakers during their budget deliberations.
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Source: Modern Healthcare
Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD
December 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The December issue features a conversation with AJMC Co–Editors in Chief A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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