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Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform - A Framework for Improving Care and Slowing Health Care Cost Growth

April 2013
How to Build a Better Health-care System

April 18, 2013, Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Pete V. Domenici and Alice M. Rivlin
Around the Halls: The Obama Administration's Budget Release

April 10, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, Isabel V. Sawhill and Bill Frenzel
Growing the Economy and Stabilizing the Debt

March 14, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin
15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget—Part II: Addressing Entitlements, Taxation, and Revenues

February 26, 2013
Sequester Was Intended To Be Bad Policy, Let's End It

February 26, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin
What has a chance of going somewhere if the president and the Congress can get back together is some version of a grand bargain, and a grand bargain means we have to slow the growth of the entitlements, especially Medicare and Medicaid. We have to put Social Security back on a firm foundation. And we have to reform our tax code so it raises some more revenue. We need to do that and stop fooling around with this counterproductive thing called the sequester, which is bad macro policy, it would reduce employment when we don't want to.
February 23, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, CNN
[Obama's tone of his ’08 campaign] hasn’t worked very well, but this is the moment to go back to it, because if he doesn’t, he dooms the rest of his term to squabbling with the Republicans.
February 11, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, The Daily Beast
Warriors Against Waste: Cutting Defense Spending through Reform?

January 24, 2013
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Make Changes to Social Security Now to Prevent Future Debt

January 3, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin
[The fiscal cliff negotiations are] very bad for the economy and for our image in the world. We don't look like a country in charge of its own destiny. That's hard to quantify but it's bad.
January 2, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, Reuters
Lost Opportunity for Jobs and Growth

December 28, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin
Steps to Fiscal Responsibility

December 14, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin
It would be extremely stupid to go over the [fiscal] cliff, because that would be very bad for the economy and it would be very bad for the image of the American government. It would show that we just weren't functioning.
November 16, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin, Wall Street Journal
The lesson of Europe is, don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to act. Do it now. The other lesson is that austerity is not a good prescription for weak economies. We have the luxury that the Europeans don’t. We aren’t under pressure in the financial markets. That means we should put a plan in place now that acts gradually over time before we get into trouble.
November 11, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin, Bloomberg
Red Ink and Bad Blood: What Do Federal Budget Politics Mean for the Next President and You?

October 22, 2012
Right now in this political campaign, both sides are trying to scare people by saying this other guy will destroy Medicare. No one is going to destroy Medicare.
October 10, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin, MarketWatch
Civil Conversations: Restoring Civility to the Debt Discussion

October 9, 2012
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We do need to put Social Security back on a firm foundation for the future. It is really stupid to wait to do that. We need to assure people currently in the labor force and entering into it that Social Security will be there for them and that they can plan around it.
October 3, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin, The Fiscal Times
It would be very bad policy to just go over the [fiscal] cliff. Some people think it makes it easier, but I think makes the U.S. look foolish, and it takes a risk with the macroeconomy, adding to the uncertainty.
October 2, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin, Washington Post
Raising for taxes for everyone, and making big senseless cuts would be really stupid policy.
September 19, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin, Washington Post
The Great Medicare Compromise

August 29, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin
Our Tax Reform Plan Deserves Another Look

July 25, 2012, Pete V. Domenici and Alice M. Rivlin
Addressing the Nation’s Fiscal Crisis: A Conversation with Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.)

July 16, 2012
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Confronting the Looming Fiscal Crisis

June 19, 2012, Pete V. Domenici and Alice M. Rivlin