Affordable Care Act
- Report
How CBO and JCT Analyze Major Proposals That Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage
The process for analyzing major health care legislation involves three key steps: develop an analytic strategy, model the effects of the proposal, and review and write about the estimate.
- Presentation
An Overview of CBO’s Estimates of Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance for People Under Age 65: 2017 to 2027
Presentation by Jessica Banthin, Deputy Assistant Director in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at a Congressional Research Service seminar on CBO’s methods for developing cost estimates.
- Presentation
Estimating the Costs of Proposals Affecting Health Insurance Coverage
Presentation by Sarah Masi, an analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at a Congressional Research Service seminar on CBO’s methods for developing cost estimates.
- Report
CBO’s Record of Projecting Subsidies for Health Insurance Under the Affordable Care Act: 2014 to 2016
This report assesses the accuracy of projections that CBO and JCT made in 2010 and 2013 of federal spending for people made newly eligible for Medicaid by the ACA and of subsidies for health insurance purchased through the ACA marketplaces.
- Presentation
An Overview of CBO’s Estimates of Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance for People Under Age 65: 2017 to 2027
Jessica Banthin, Deputy Assistant Director in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, will deliver this presentation on December 7, 2017, at the Inforum Outlook Conference at the University of Maryland.
- Report
The Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017 and the Individual Mandate
CBO discusses the combined effects of simultaneously passing the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017 and repealing the individual health insurance mandate.
- Presentation
Modeling the Effects of the Individual Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage
Presentation by Alexandra Minicozzi, Unit Chief of Health Insurance Modeling in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Actuaries.
- Report
Repealing the Individual Health Insurance Mandate: An Updated Estimate
CBO and the JCT estimate that, by itself, repealing the mandate would reduce federal deficits by about $338 billion over the 2018–2027 period and increase the number of uninsured people by 4 million in 2019 and 13 million in 2027.
- Blog Post
Today CBO Will Publish an Updated Estimate of the Effects of Repealing the Individual Mandate
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate that repealing that mandate starting in 2019 would reduce federal budget deficits by $338 billion between 2018 and 2027 relative to CBO’s most recent baseline.
- Cost Estimate
Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017
CBO and the JCT estimate that enacting the legislation would reduce the deficit by $3.8 billion over the 2018–2027 period without substantially changing the number of people with health insurance coverage, on net.