CBO will provide as much qualitative information as possible about the effects of the legislation. However, CBO will not be able to provide point estimates of the effects on the deficit, health insurance coverage, or premiums for at least several weeks.
CBO Blog
How much do companies benefit from corporate inversions? In this report, CBO analyzes the reasons for and effects of inversions. CBO also projects how inversions and certain other strategies will affect future U.S. corporate tax revenues.
CBO and JCT project that the federal subsidies, taxes, and penalties associated with health insurance coverage for people under age 65 will result in a net subsidy from the federal government of $705 billion in 2017.
Since the previous edition of this report, CBO has—at various times—updated certain aspects of its health care projections, but has not produced a comprehensive set of estimates like those in this report.
The federal budget deficit was $675 billion for the first 11 months of fiscal year 2017, CBO estimates—$56 billion more than the shortfall recorded during the same span last year.
CBO finds that premiums collected by the National Flood Insurance Program for policies in effect in August 2016 fell short of the program’s expected costs by $1.4 billion, mainly because of shortfalls in coastal counties.
CBO analyzes the impact of retirement benefits on the federal budget and on the compensation, recruitment, and retention of its employees. It assesses the short-term and long-term effects of potential changes to those benefits.
CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the effects on the federal budget, health insurance coverage, market stability, and premiums if payments for cost-sharing reductions would end after December 2017.
Tomorrow afternoon, CBO expects to release a report, which is being prepared with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, about the effects of terminating payments for cost-sharing reductions.
The federal budget deficit was $568 billion for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2017, the Congressional Budget Office estimates—$56 billion more than the shortfall recorded during the same span last year.