Retirement
- Working Paper
"Lesser-of" Payment Policies and the Use of Physicians' Services Among Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries: Working Paper 2023-01
This paper examines the effects of physician payment reductions on the use of physicians' services by dual-eligible beneficiaries—people enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid—over the 1999–2012 period.
- Report
CBO’s 2022 Long-Term Projections for Social Security
In CBO’s projections, spending on Social Security exceeds revenues to the program in 2022 and increases relative to GDP over the next 75 years, while revenues remain stable. If combined, the program’s trust funds would be exhausted in 2033.
- Presentation
Health Care Options for Reducing the Deficit
Presentation by Carrie Colla, Director of CBO's Health Analysis Division, and Chapin White, Deputy Director of CBO's Health Analysis Division, to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume I: Larger Reductions
CBO issues a volume describing 17 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $300 billion over the next 10 years or, in the case of Social Security options, have a comparably large effect in later decades.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume II: Smaller Reductions
CBO issues a volume that contains short descriptions of 59 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by less than $300 billion over the next 10 years.
- Report
Effect of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s Final Rule on Special Financial Assistance
CBO responds to a request for information on the effects of a final rule issued in July 2022 by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regarding special financial assistance provided to pension plans under the American Rescue Plan Act.
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Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2019
CBO examines changes in the distribution of family wealth from 1989 to 2019 and analyzes those changes in relation to several family characteristics. In addition, the agency examines how total family wealth has changed since 2019.
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Additional Information About Prescription Drug Legislation
CBO provides additional information that Congressman Jason Smith and his colleagues requested about subtitle I of the reconciliation recommendations of the Senate Committee on Finance regarding prescription drug legislation.
- Report
Information About Cancer Drugs Covered by Part B of Medicare
CBO provides information about the use of drugs that treat cancer and that are covered by Part B of the Medicare program, identifying the top 15 such drugs on the basis of the number of enrollees that use them.
- Report
The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook
The U.S. faces a challenging fiscal outlook according to CBO's extended baseline projections, which show budget deficits and federal debt held by the public growing steadily in relation to gross domestic product over the next three decades.