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More Interesting Charts from CBO Director Elmendorf's Presentation
Earlier in the week, we highlighted a portion of CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation at Cornell University highlighting the increased resources...
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Medicare Growth Continues to Be Slow
Prior to the release of CBO's August baseline, we surmised that one of the revisions to the budget would come from Medicare, whose growth in 2014 had...
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The Health Spending Outlook Has Improved But Pick-Up in Growth Still Expected
In a highly anticipated release, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week released updated data and projections on National...
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BPC Kicks Off Series on Delivery System Reform
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has kicked off a series of white papers on overcoming the obstacles to delivery system reform with an...
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2014 Medicare Spending Growth Picking Up But Still Low
CBO's July Monthly Budget Review brings us ten months into the fiscal year, and it's time to update our tracking of the slow growth of Medicare so far...
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Drivers of the Debt: Aging in the Medium Term, Health Costs Over the Long Term
The recent CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook confirmed that our long-term debt problems remain far from solved, with debt projected to exceed the size of...
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Medicare Trustees Report Delivers Good News But Need for Reform Remains
We have already released our analysis of the 2014 Social Security Trustees' report, which showed that the program's long-term finances are largely...
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Price Tag for VA Conference Bill: $10 Billion
Note: CBO has issued a more detailed score of the bill. The table has been updated to reflect these numbers. The Congressional Budget Office yesterday...
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Trust Fund Insolvency Dates Are Approaching Fast
Although most of our analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook has focused on debt projections, CBO also makes projections about the solvency of...
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Dissecting the Good Health Care Spending News in CBO's Long-Term Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) new Long-Term Budget Outlook presents plenty of good news on Medicare costs yet still highlights the role that...
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Continued Slow Growth for Medicare in 2014
CBO's release of the June Monthly Budget Review (MBR) gives us another data point in what has been an interesting story for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014: the...
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CBO Finds House VA Bill Could Cost More, Does Cost Less Than Senate Bill
The Congressional Budget Office today released a preliminary analysis of several sections of the House VA reform bill. Like the Senate bill that we...