Medicaid and CHIP
- Report
The 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook
If current laws remained generally unchanged, federal debt held by the public would exceed 100 percent of GDP by 2039 and would be on an upward path relative to the size of the economy—a trend that could not be sustained indefinitely.
- Presentation
Children’s Health Insurance Program: Financing Issues
Presentation by Rob Stewart, CBO Analyst, to the Alliance for Health Reform
- Presentation
Coverage Effects of Limiting the Tax Exclusion for Employment-Based Health Insurance
Presentation by Allison Percy, CBO Analyst, to the American Society of Health Economists Fifth Biennial Conference
- Blog Post
Estimating the Budgetary Effects of the Affordable Care Act
Following a recent hearing, CBO was asked by a Member of Congress to provide an updated estimate of the budgetary effects of the Affordable Care Act. This post explains why CBO cannot readily provide a retrospective analysis of the ACA.
- Presentation
Presentation on the Distribution of Federal Spending and Taxes in 2006
Presentation by Molly Dahl and Kevin Perese, CBO Analysts, at the NTA Spring Symposium
- Report
Updated Estimates of the Effects of the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act, April 2014
CBO and JCT have lowered their estimates of the net federal cost of the ACA’s insurance coverage provisions—to $1.4 trillion over the next decade, about $100 billion less than estimated in February.
- Cost Estimate
S. 2110, SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014
SGR repeal and other Medicaid and Medicare provisions
- Blog Post
Comments About CBO’s Projections for Federal Health Care Spending
Last week, Director Doug Elmendorf participated in two panels at the American Enterprise Institute’s World Forum. Today’s post reviews his talk about health care policy; tomorrow’s post will summarize his comments about immigration policy.
- Blog Post
Updated Estimates of the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act
CBO’s updated estimates of the effects of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance coverage provisions, which were published in the agency’s recent report on the budget and economic outlook, do not differ much from those released in May 2013.
- Blog Post
Presentation on Federal Health Care Spending at Williams College
Director Doug Elmendorf spoke yesterday about the main factors that are causing federal health care spending to grow much faster than the economy. He also summarized CBO’s analysis of a wide range of approaches to address that growth.