Medicare
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The 2019 Long-Term Budget Outlook
If current laws generally remained unchanged, large budget deficits would boost federal debt to unprecedented levels over the next 30 years, CBO projects.
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HISIM2—CBO’s New Health Insurance Simulation Model
Presentation by Geena Kim and Sean Lyons, analysts in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at the 8th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists.
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Testimony on the Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System
CBO testifies before the House Budget Committee on the agency's recent work analyzing the key design components and considerations for establishing a single-payer health care system.
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Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2019 to 2029 in 12 Slides
CBO and JCT project that federal subsidies, taxes, and penalties associated with health insurance coverage for people under age 65 will result in a net subsidy from the federal government of $737 billion in 2019 and $1.3 trillion in 2029.
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Negotiation Over Drug Prices in Medicare
CBO answers questions about options for allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate over the prices paid for drugs under the Medicare Part D benefit.
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Director’s Statement on CBO’s Updated 10-Year Baseline Budget Projections
Overall, our baseline budget projections, which reflect the assumption that current laws generally remain in place, have changed little since January, when we released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029. In our projections, federal debt continues to rise from its already high level because of persistently large budget deficits.
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Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2019 to 2029
CBO and JCT project that federal subsidies, taxes, and penalties associated with health insurance coverage for people under age 65 will result in a net subsidy from the federal government of $737 billion in 2019 and $1.3 trillion in 2029.
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Updated Budget Projections: 2019 to 2029
CBO projects a deficit of $896 billion for 2019—$1 billion less than the deficit it projected in January. Federal debt held by the public is projected to grow from 78 percent of gross domestic product in 2019 to 92 percent in 2029.
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Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System
This report describes the primary features of single-payer systems, and it discusses some of the design considerations and choices that policymakers will face in developing proposals for establishing such a system in the United States.
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CBO Releases Four Products Explaining How Its New Health Insurance Simulation Model Works
CBO released four products that, in combination, explain how the agency uses its new health insurance simulation model, HISIM2, to generate estimates of health insurance coverage and premiums for people under age 65.