Budget options, volume 1, health care
Subtitle: Congressional Budget Office
Series: CBO report
Publisher: U. S. Congressional Budget Office
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Cost of Medical care; Medical economics; Health care; Economic aspects; Medicare; Health care reform
Notes: "CBO" at head of title.

"December 2008."

"Pub No. 3185."

"Notes: Unless otherwise indicated, all years referred to in this report are federal fiscal years, which run from October 1 to September 30." -- iii

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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The private health insurance market; title: The tax treatment of health insurance; title: Changing the availability of health insurance through existing federal programs; title: The quality and efficiency of health care; title: Geographic variation in spending for medicare; title: Paying for medicare services; title: Financing and paying for services in medicaid and the state children's health insurance program; title: Premiums and cost sharing in federal health programs; title: Long-term care; title: Health behavior and health promotion; title: Closing the gap between medicare's spending and receipts.