Private Health Insurance
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How Increased Use of Gene Therapy Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease Could Affect the Federal Budget
Gene therapies replace or modify disease-causing genes in human cells. In this report, CBO discusses how it would estimate the budgetary effects of policies that sought to increase the use of gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2025 to 2034
CBO periodically issues a compendium of policy options and their estimated effects on the federal budget. This report presents 76 options for altering spending or revenues to reduce federal budget deficits over the next decade.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1339, Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act
As reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on June 22, 2023
- Report
The Effects of Not Extending the Expanded Premium Tax Credits for the Number of Uninsured People and the Growth in Premiums
CBO provides estimates on how not extending the expanded premium tax credit will affect the number of people without health insurance and average gross benchmark premiums for plans purchased through the marketplaces.
- Report
Alternative Approaches to Reducing Prescription Drug Prices
CBO discusses prescription drug prices and approaches aimed at reducing those prices. Some of the approaches would cap prices or limit their growth, and other approaches would promote price competition or affect the flow of information.
- Report
Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on Hospital and Physician Consolidation and Its Impact on the Federal Budget
The House Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which Chapin White, CBO's Director of Health Analysis, testified. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Report
The Effects of Permanently Extending the Expansion of the Premium Tax Credit and the Costs of that Credit for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Recipients
CBO provides information about the effects on the budget and on health insurance coverage of permanently extending the expanded premium tax credit and about the costs of that credit for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients.
- Blog Post
CBO Publishes New Projections Related to Health Insurance for 2024 to 2034
CBO published updated baseline projections of health insurance coverage and federal subsidies for it. The projections are described in an article published in the journal "Health Affairs" and a presentation on CBO’s website.
- Presentation
Health Insurance Coverage for the U.S. Population, 2024 to 2034
Presentation by Jessica Hale, an analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at a press briefing organized by "Health Affairs."
- Report
Testimony on Hospital and Physician Consolidation and Its Impact on the Federal Budget
Chapin White, CBO's Director of Health Analysis, testifies before the House Committee on the Budget.