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- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 30, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 12, 2011
- Report
This issue brief reviews patterns of Medicare Part D utilization and spending among the non-LIS and LIS populations.
- Blog Post
The centerpiece of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Medicare Modernization Act) was the creation of Medicare Part D, a subsidized pharmaceutical benefit that went into effect in 2006. That additional coverage constituted the most substantial expansion of the Medicare program since its inception in 1965. In 2010, the federal government spent $62 billion on Part D, representing 12 percent of total federal spending for Medicare that year.
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Armed Services on November 15, 2011
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on July 22, 2011
- Presentation
CBO Associate Director for Economic Analysis Jeffrey R. Kling's presentation at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- Blog Post
This morning Jeffrey Kling, CBO’s Associate Director for Economic Analysis, spoke at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management. His presentation—which can be viewed below—focused on CBO’s use of evidence in the analysis of budget and economic policies. The presentation addressed numerous questions, including:
- Cost Estimate
Pay-As-You-Go table for S. 914 with an amendment provided to CBO on October 13, 2011
- Blog Post
On Friday, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the department does not plan to implement the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) long-term care insurance program under current law. A number of people have inquired about whether and how CBO will reflect that statement in its budget projections and cost estimates for legislation. Here are the answers: