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In defense of centrists
By Alice M. Rivlin In a recent New York Times column, Paul Krugman rightly charges Republicans with hypocrisy for espousing fiscal responsibility while adding trillions to the national debt, but adds...
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Testimony on oversight of the Congressional Budget Office
By Alice M. Rivlin Chairman Womack, Ranking Member Yarmuth, and members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting me to present my views at the wrap-up hearing of your series on Oversight of CBO....
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Can We Talk?
By Alice M. RivlinThe Case for Bipartisan Consensus on Economic Policy Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America’s opportunity to show the world that democracy can deal...
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Economic policy should be more boring
By Alice M. Rivlin This week the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee raised short-term interest rates another notch, as expected, signaled they would likely raise rates twice more this year, and...
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(De)stabilizing the ACA’s individual market: A view from the states
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), through the individual health insurance markets, provided coverage for millions of Americans who could not get health insurance coverage through their employer or public...
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Alice Rivlin was part of a symposium on sustainable U.S. health spending
By Alice M. RivlinAlice Rivlin was part of a symposium on sustainable U.S. health spending
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Joint recommendations of Brookings and AEI scholars to reduce health care costs
By Henry J. Aaron, Loren Adler, Joseph Antos, James Capretta, Matthew Fiedler, Paul Ginsburg, Benedic Ippolito, Alice M. Rivlin The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions recently...
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Alice Rivlin: A career spent making better public policy
By Alice M. Rivlin, Fred Dews“I was always interested in doing good policy analysis, and improving the policy process,” says Alice M. Rivlin in this interview about her career in public policy and...
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A new vision for health reform
By Joseph Antos, Alice M. Rivlin America spent $3.5 trillion on health care in 2017, totaling 17.9 percent of the country’s GDP. Health spending accounts for more than one-quarter of all federal...
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To unite a divided nation, we must tackle both vertical and horizontal...
By Alice M. Rivlin, Allan Rivlin, Sheri RivlinAmerica was once a country defined by our confident self-perception that we sometimes called “American exceptionalism.” Our “can-do” spirit helped us win...
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