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- Blog Post
Medicaid is a joint federal-state program with an average enrollment of about 57 million people this year. In 2012, federal spending for Medicaid was $251 billion, of which $223 billion covered benefits for enrollees.
- Blog Post
Although spending for health care in the United States has grown more slowly in recent years than it had previously, high and rising levels of such spending continue to pose a challenge for Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs.
- Report
Federal debt would grow to 100 percent of GDP by 2038 under current law, CBO projects, and would be on an upward path relative to the size of the economy—a trend that could not be sustained indefinitely.
- Cost Estimate
Direct spending effects of the bill as introduced in the House of Representatives on September 16, 2013.
- Report
On an annualized basis, the funding provided by the continuing resolution would exceed the statutory caps by $19 billion. Defense funding would exceed its cap by about $20 billion; nondefense funding would be about $1 billion below its cap.
- Report
In the 2011–2012 academic year, 9.4 million students received $34 billion in Pell grants. How would tightening eligibility or changing grant amounts affect the program’s costs or the number of recipients?
- Working Paper
This working paper models decisions about purchasing annuities in a context in which individuals learn new information about their health status over time.
- Data and Technical Information
CBO details the data and methods used in its June 2013 publication, Rising Demand for Long-Term Services and Supports for Elderly People.
- Report
By 2050, one-fifth of the U.S. population will be age 65 or older, up from 12 percent in 2000 and 8 percent in 1950. As a result, expenditures on long-term services and supports for the elderly will rise substantially in the coming decades.
- Presentation
Presentation by Jessica Banthin, CBO Senior Advisor, at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting