Text: CBO’s Options On Health Spending

�鶹Ů�� Health News Staff — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:22:38 +0000

The Congressional Budget Office released a “compendium of budget options” Thursday to “help inform federal lawmakers about the implications of possible policy choices.” According to the , it’s “one of several reports that CBO produces regularly for the House and Senate” and it “presents more than 100 options for altering federal spending and revenues.” Most are designed to reduce the deficit.

In his about the report, CBO director Douglas Elmendorf briefly summarizes the report and lays out the challenges, emphasizing those related to mandatory spending.

Mandatory Spending in 2010

Source: Congressional Budget Office

Elmendorf writes,

Many of the 100 options the report lays out concern health care spending, military and veterans’ health care, funding for the National Insitutes of Health and most prominently, Medicare and Medicaid. KHN has excerpted the health-care-related options, below.

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