Private Health Insurance
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Policy Approaches to Reduce What Commercial Health Insurers Pay for Hospitals’ and Physicians’ Services
Presentation by Michael Cohen, Daria Pelech, and Karen Stockley, analysts in CBO’s Health Analysis Division, to the Dartmouth Symposium on Health Care Delivery Science.
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Policy Approaches to Reduce What Commercial Insurers Pay for Hospitals’ and Physicians’ Services
CBO identified policy approaches that federal lawmakers could adopt to reduce the prices that commercial insurers pay for hospitals’ and physicians’ services, thereby lowering health insurance premiums and the cost of federal subsidies.
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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.
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Additional Information About the INSULIN Act
CBO provides additional information about how the certification provision in the INSULIN Act would affect the prices for insulin and the federal budget.
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Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on a Single-Payer Health Care System That Is Based on Medicare’s Fee-for-Service Program
The Senate Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which Phillip L. Swagel, CBO's Director, testified. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
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Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under 65: 2022 to 2032
In CBO and JCT’s projections, net federal subsidies in 2022 for insured people under age 65 are $997 billion. In 2032, that annual amount is projected to reach $1.6 trillion.
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Budgetary Effects of a Policy That Would Lower the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 60
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate that lowering the age of Medicare eligibility to 60 would increase federal budget deficits, change primary sources of health insurance, and increase the number of people insured.
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Testimony on a Single-Payer Health Care System That Is Based on Medicare’s Fee-for-Service Program
CBO Director Phillip Swagel testifies before the Senate Budget Committee.
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A Discussion of Recent Research on Health Care Prices: Prescription Drugs, Hospitals’ Services, and Physicians’ Services
Presentation by Michael Cohen, an analyst in CBO’s Health Analysis Division, and Tamara Hayford, Chief of CBO’s Health Policy Studies Unit, at the Congressional Research Service.
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Variation in Prices for Hospitals’ Services
Presentation by Michael Cohen, an analyst in CBO’s Health Analysis Division, at the American Academy of Actuaries.