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Demand for primary care is projected to rise slightly faster between 2013 and 2023 than in the previous decade. The paper outlines a number of ways—with and without federal intervention—in which supply might respond to rising demand.
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This paper compares the hospital payment rates of three larger insurers’ commercial plans and Medicare Advantage plans with Medicare’s fee-for-service rates. It also examines the variation of those rates across and within markets.
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In emerging market economies, governments issue debt denominated both in their own currency and in foreign currencies. This paper examines how the use of those two types of debt affects these economies.
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This paper examines various factors that affect estimates made by CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the budgetary savings from tax compliance proposals.
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CBO released a paper calculating hospitals’ profit margins in 2025 under several illustrative scenarios. Although hospitals could face greater financial pressure, the evidence was not sufficient to assess how hospitals might respond.
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This working paper finds evidence for smaller short-term effects on output and employment from tax changes during times of higher unemployment.
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How does CBO estimate increases in hurricane damage between now and 2075? This working paper documents the analysis underlying CBO’s report Potential Increases in Hurricane Damage in the United States: Implications for the Federal Budget.
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This paper describes an approach to modeling U.S. production of energy from shale resources and the outlook for that production. Production is insensitive to the price of oil in the short run but quite responsive within two to three years.
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This working paper analyzes five stylized changes in federal fiscal policy that would close a fiscal gap of 1.8 percent of GDP, and measures the costs that those policy changes would impose on different generations.
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This working paper describes the methods and calculations CBO used in its August 2015 baseline projections to estimate the effects of the Affordable Care Act on the labor market.