Retirement
- Presentation
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.
- Report
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.
- Presentation
Overlapping Generations Model Roundtable: Model Comparisons From a Stylized Social Security Experiment
Presentation by Kerk Phillips, an analyst in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, at the National Tax Association’s 49th annual Spring Symposium.
- Report
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.
- Report
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.
- Report
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.
- Blog Post
CBO Releases an Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Effects of Certain Social Security Policies
This interactive tool lets users select different combinations of policies and see the effect on the finances of the Social Security system, as well as the impact on different groups of people.
- Interactive
How Changing Social Security Could Affect Beneficiaries and the System's Finances
This interactive tool lets the user explore seven policy options that could be used to improve the finances of the Social Security program and delay the exhaustion of its trust funds.
- Blog Post
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.
- Report
Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: Definitions and Estimates for 2015 to 2018
This report explains how CBO defines health insurance coverage, describes how CBO combines data from various sources to produce estimates of different types of coverage in past years, and shows such estimates for the years 2015 to 2018.