Presentation
Presentation by Tamara Hayford, Chief of CBO’s Health Policy Studies Unit, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
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Summary
This presentation provides an introduction to CBO and describes how the agency uses research in its work for the Congress. Examples of research-informed analyses on these four topics are discussed:
- The budgetary effects of relaxing or repealing Medicaid’s institutions for mental diseases (IMD) exclusion,
- The effects of drug pricing policies on innovation,
- Trends in spending and prices for prescription drugs, and
- The offsetting effects of prescription drug use on Medicare’s spending for medical services.