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This letter responds to Chairman Darrell E. Issa’s request for information about CBO’s March 20, 2010, cost estimate for H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, in combination with H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on September 12, 2012 S. 3313 would expand the types and availability of infertility treatment provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost $568 million over the 2013-2017 period, assuming appropriation of the estimated amounts. Enacting S. 3313 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you go procedures do not apply.
- Blog Post
Previously, when estimating the budgetary effects of legislation regarding prescription drugs, CBO found insufficient evidence of an “offsetting” effect of prescription drug use on spending for medical services. Recently, CBO reviewed dozens of newer studies and determined that a body of research now demonstrates a link between changes in prescription drug use and changes in the use of and spending for medical services.
- Report
CBO reviewed dozens of newer studies and determined a body of research now demonstrates a link between changes in prescription drug use and changes in the use of and spending for medical services.
- Presentation
Assistant Director for Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Linda T. Bilheimer's presentation to the MIDAS Network Meeting
- Blog Post
Unemployment insurance benefits topped $150 billion during 2010—when the annual unemployment rate peaked at 9.6 percent—up from $33 billion in fiscal year 2007.
- Report
Between 2007 and 2010, unemployment benefits expanded nearly five-fold owing to high unemployment due to the weak economy, and decisions by policymakers to increase the number of weeks for which unemployed workers could receive benefits.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on September 12, 2012 S. 3340 would extend mental health services offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to family members of active-duty servicemembers, enhance programs for homeless veterans, and make other changes to veterans’ health care, compensation and burial benefits. In total, CBO estimates that implementing the bill would have a discretionary cost of $310 million over the 2013-2017 period, assuming appropriation of the specified and estimated amounts.
- Data and Technical Information
In this document, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) illustrates effective marginal tax rates under the tax and transfer systems for hypothetical families consisting of a single parent with one child, a married taxpayer with two children, and a single taxpayer with no children. These illustrations supplement the analysis of effective marginal tax rates (hereafter, marginal tax rates) faced by a hypothetical single parent with one child described in Effective Marginal Tax Rates for Low- and Moderate-Income Workers.
- Blog Post
This afternoon CBO released a new report on Effective Marginal Tax Rates for Low- and Moderate-Income Workers.