Private Health Insurance
- Blog Post
CBO to Release Updated Baseline Budget Projections on May 2
On May 2, CBO plans to release updated 10-year baseline budget projections. At the same time, CBO will release Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2019 to 2029.
- Working Paper
How Do Changes in Medical Malpractice Liability Laws Affect Health Care Spending and the Federal Budget? Working Paper 2019-03
Updating its approach to estimating the effects of changes to medical malpractice liability laws on federal spending, CBO explains how and why the modeling is changing and offers a preliminary estimate of the budgetary effects.
- Report
How CBO and JCT Analyzed Coverage Effects of New Rules for Association Health Plans and Short-Term Plans
This report describes the methods used to assess how the new rules would affect the number of people who obtain health insurance and the costs of federal subsidies for that coverage. It also provides details about those projected effects.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2019 to 2028
CBO periodically issues a volume of options—this year’s installment presents 121—that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues. CBO’s website allows users to filter options by topic, date, and other categories.
- Presentation
CBO’s Analyses and Projections of Federal Health Care Costs
Presentation by Robert Sunshine, Senior Advisor in CBO’s Office of the Director, at the 10th Annual Meeting of the OECD Network of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.
- Report
The 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook
If current laws remain generally unchanged, CBO projects, federal budget deficits and debt would increase over the next 30 years—reaching the highest level of debt relative to GDP in the nation’s history by far.
- Presentation
Updating CBO’s Health Insurance Simulation Model (HISIM)
Presentation by Jessica Banthin, Deputy Assistant Director in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division (HRLD), and Alexandra Minicozzi, Chief of HRLD’s Health Insurance Modeling Unit, at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
- Report
Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2018 to 2028
CBO and JCT project that the 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 $685 billion in 2018.
- Report
How CBO Defines and Estimates Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65
In addition to describing how CBO defines and estimates health insurance coverage for people under 65, the agency explains its sources of data, their limitations, and how it adjusts for such limitations when preparing its estimates.
- Report
Appropriation of Cost-Sharing Reduction Subsidies
CBO’s response to Honorable Lamar Alexander’s request for an alternative estimate of section 602(b) of the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2018.