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Health Care
The major federal health programs – Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act – will be atop the federal agenda for the foreseeable future. As policymakers consider how to restrain health care spending growth and modify the major health programs, Policy Futures promotes policies that expand and sustain, rather than restrict, access to affordable health coverage.
Strengthening Medicare Financing
Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund faces depletion in only about three years, according to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). To improve program solvency...
Executive Order, Other Administration Actions Would Weaken Medicare
President Trump billed a recent executive order as “protecting and improving Medicare for our nation’s seniors” and “enhancing [its] fiscal sustainability,” but it would actually do the...
Building on ACA’s Success Would Help Millions with Substance Use Disorders
The need for substance use disorder treatment is acute. A record 52,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2015, with 33,000 due to opioid use.[1] Drug overdose deaths rose by...
Housing Vouchers Work: Providing Supportive Housing for Particularly Vulnerable People
This is the next post in our “Housing Vouchers Work” blog series, which provides the latest facts and figures about the Housing Choice Voucher program, the largest rental assistance...
House GOP Bill Could Deprive Millions of Mental Health and Opioid Addiction Treatment
We explained earlier today why a Republican leadership plan to add $15 billion for behavioral health treatment and maternity coverage and newborn care to the House health bill would do little...
ACA Repeal Options Would Weaken Access to Substance Use Treatment
House Republicans’ policy alternatives to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would cut federal Medicaid funding and end the ACA’s Medicaid expansion for low-income adults, among other things. That...
Repealing Health Reform Would Undermine Fight Against Opioid Epidemic
Repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would eliminate access to behavioral health treatment for several million people with serious mental illness or substance use disorders, including opioid...
Social Security and Medicare Trustees See Little Change in Outlook
The financial outlook for Social Security and Medicare has changed little since last year, according to today’s reports from the programs’ trustees. Social Security can pay full benefits until...
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