Public Health and Prevention

CBO analyzes the budgetary effects and other effects of federal policies that promote better health, the prevention of disease, and emergency preparedness and response.

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How CBO Analyzes Approaches to Improve Health Through Disease Prevention
June 15, 2020
Preventive medical care includes services that can prevent diseases from occurring and detect diseases before symptoms appear. This report describes how CBO estimates the effects on the federal budget of proposals to expand the use of such services.
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CBO’s Analysis of the Budgetary Impact of Policies That Could Improve People’s Health
December 3, 2013
Given the high degree of interest in the relationship between people’s health and the federal budget, this post recaps some highlights from CBO’s report titled Raising the Excise Tax on Cigarettes: Effects on Health and the Federal Budget.
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Raising the Excise Tax on Cigarettes: Effects on Health and the Federal Budget
June 13, 2012
CBO has analyzed the impact of a hypothetical increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes to demonstrate the complex links between policies that aim to improve health and effects on the federal budget.