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The committee probably will focus on various possible reforms to the Medicare program, said Marc Goldwein, policy director for the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget in Washington. Previous commissions convened to reduce the nation's ...

But Obama's proposal would not hit that $4 trillion target until 2023, two years after the other proposals, according to an analysis released April 21 by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan policy center in Washington, ...

"It's the people who you wouldn't necessarily expect to be losing their insurance who are losing their insurance," said Sarah Axeen, policy analyst for the ...

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... said Len Nichols, PhD, an economist and director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan policy institute. ...

...However, one thing sometimes lost in the debate is that Massachusetts has created better health plan competition, said economist Len Nichols, PhD, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute. Because health plans can't charge enrollees based on preexisting conditions, the plans now have to compete on other levels, such as getting the best quality care at the best price. "In many ways, they have done the insurance market part right," Dr. Nichols said...