Medicaid and CHIP
- Presentation
A Discussion of Recent Research on Health Care Prices: Prescription Drugs, Hospitals’ Services, and Physicians’ Services
Presentation by Michael Cohen, an analyst in CBO’s Health Analysis Division, and Tamara Hayford, Chief of CBO’s Health Policy Studies Unit, at the Congressional Research Service.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 2347, Strengthening the Vaccines for Children Program Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 21, 2021
- Report
Prescription Drugs: Spending, Use, and Prices
CBO examines trends in nationwide spending on prescription drugs over the 1980–2018 period. CBO also provides a detailed analysis of trends in spending, use, and prices in the Medicare Part D and Medicaid programs over the 2009–2018 period.
- Report
Budgetary Effects of Making Specified Policies in the Build Back Better Act Permanent
In a response to Congressman Palmer, CBO summarizes its recent analysis of the costs of making permanent some of the policies in the Build Back Better Act.
- Report
Budgetary Effects of Making Specified Policies in the Build Back Better Act Permanent
CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation project the budgetary effects, including the effects on interest costs, of a modified version of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, that would make various policies permanent rather than temporary.
- Report
Response to a Question About CBO’s Analysis of Making Specified Policies in the Build Back Better Act Permanent
CBO responds to a question from Senator Schumer about its analysis of the costs of making permanent some of the provisions of the Build Back Better Act.
- Presentation
Economic Effects of Expanding Home- and Community-Based Services in Medicaid
The Build Back Better Act includes provisions that would result in new federal spending for home- and community-based services (HCBS) provided by Medicaid. Those provisions would affect states, caregivers, and people who use HCBS.
- Working Paper
How Changes in the Distribution of Earnings Affect the Federal Deficit: Working Paper 2021-12
This paper examines how the federal budget deficit would have differed in 2018 under four scenarios that vary the distribution of labor earnings while leaving aggregate earnings unchanged.
- Report
The Budgetary Effects of Major Laws Enacted in Response to the 2020–2021 Coronavirus Pandemic, December 2020 and March 2021
CBO describes how two laws enacted in December 2020 and March 2021 in response to the 2020–2021 coronavirus pandemic will affect federal spending, revenues, and the deficit.
- Report
The Distribution of Household Income, 2018
In 2018, average household income after accounting for means-tested transfers and federal taxes was $37,700 among households in the lowest quintile and $243,900 among households in the highest quintile.