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Growth in spending on health care programs is one of the central fiscal challenges facing the federal government. Health care spending per person has grown faster than the nation's economic output per person by about 1 1/2 percentage points per year, on average, for the past few decades. This rapid growth poses a challenge for federal health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and also for state and local governments and for the private sector. CBO devotes a large share of its resources to studying proposals that would make narrow or broad changes in the nation's systems for delivering and financing health care.

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H.R. 1206, Access to Professional Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2011

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November 7, 2012

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Assessing Effects on the Federal Budget of Policies to Promote Health and Prevent Disease

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September 11, 2012

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S. 1440, Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Reauthorization Act

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September 20, 2012

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S. 3566, Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012

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September 20, 2012

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S. 3391, Taking Essential Steps to Testing Act

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September 19, 2012

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Payments of Penalties for Being Uninsured Under the Affordable Care Act

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September 19, 2012

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H.R. 6190, Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012

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August 22, 2012

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Medicare's Payments to Physicians: The Budgetary Impact of Alternative Policies Relative to CBO's March 2012 Baseline

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July 31, 2012

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CBO's Panel of Health Advisers

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July 27, 2012


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CBO Releases Two Analyses Related to the Affordable Care Act

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July 24, 2012


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