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- Blog Post
In addition to describing how CBO defines and estimates health insurance coverage for people under 65, the agency explains its sources of data, their limitations, and how it adjusts for those limitations in preparing its estimates.
- Blog Post
What are the challenges in estimating the number of people who would purchase health insurance in the nongroup (or individual) market under proposals to replace the current tax-based subsidies with refundable tax credits?
- Report
CBO periodically issues a volume of options—this year’s installment presents 115—that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues over the next decade. The report is available both as a PDF and in a searchable format.
- 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.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 8, 2016
- Blog Post
CBO’s analysis found that hospitals’ profit margins could decline by 2025. Whether hospitals could respond to those financial pressures in ways that maintain their profitability is unclear, highlighting the need for more research.
- Working Paper
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.
- Report
The deficit under current law is projected to be larger this year, but smaller over the 2017–2026 period, than CBO projected in March. Since January, CBO has reduced its projections of GDP growth and interest rates over the coming decade.
- Blog Post
CBO published its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook in July, describing the agency’s projections of federal spending and revenues over the next 30 years. This blog post focuses on the spending of Social Security and major health care programs.
- Presentation
This slide deck provides a quick overview of CBO's report, The 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook.