CBO's Analysis of Health Care Spending and Policy Proposals
Presentation
Presentation by Philip Ellis, CBO’s Deputy Assistant Director for Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis, to staff of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
This presentation describes CBO’s general approach to policy analysis and its role in supporting the Congress; summarizes several elements of the agency’s projections of health care spending; and reviews examples of policy proposals and approaches affecting health care that CBO has analyzed recently.