Health care in Congress

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two reports on Dec. 18 relating to health care issues for Congress to consider. From the Director's blog:

The first document, Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals, focuses on large-scale proposals, provides extensive background information, and explains CBO’s analysis of numerous issues that could arise should the Congress seek to enact major changes in the health insurance system.

The second document, Budget Options, Volume I: Health Care, is much more specific and focused on discrete changes. It presents 115 discrete options, encompassing a broad array of issues related to the financing and delivery of health care. (Volume 2 of Budget Options, which will address policy options in other areas of the federal budget, will be issued in 2009.)

Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals (pdf, 196pp/2.2MB), Dec. 2008

Budget Options, Volume 1: Health Care (pdf, 236pp/2.6MB), Dec. 2008