Cap-and-trade legislation like the Bingaman-Specter bill is no doubt politically smart, because it silently shifts the cost burden to consumers in the form of higher prices while distributing carbon allowances worth "tens or hundreds of billions of dollars" to companies that emit CO2, according to a July 9 letter from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Peter Orszag to Bingaman. Companies such as Archer Daniels Midland benefit from ethanol mandates and investment banking firms such as Goldman Sachs plan to benefit from carbon trading see "The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore's Carbon Crusade" by Deborah Corey Barnes, HUMAN EVENTS, October 1. page 191. [...] NCEP suggests lifting the U.S. moratorium on constructing nuclear power plants, which has contributed to our reliance ...
Lawmakers this winter launched into debate over prescription drug pricing in Medicare's Part D benefit, one of the Democrats' priorities in their 100 hours agenda. Advocates for seniors would like to see the Health and Human Services Department's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services empowered to negotiate directly with drug companies and secure deals using the Medicare Program's considerable market heft. As a model for how such negotiation could work, many point to the Veterans Affairs Department (VA), which gets some of the lowest drug prices on the market. Drug makers are required to give VA an immediate discount of 24 percent below their average wholesale price. With the Medicare Part D benefit in place, the new program now accounts for about a quarter of overall drug purchases...
...Ben Cardin, D-Md., argued at a January budget hearing. "Rather than having 40 companies negotiat...But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, among others, has said merely letti... use to get price reductions," CBO Director Peter Orszag told lawmakers in January. "If you we...
Failure to pass a substantial bailout package would risk "utter financial market chaos," Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag told the House Budget Committee on Wednesday. The financial markets are expecting "a significant package" addressing the problems of liquidity and solvency, Mr. Orszag said. "If there's no package whatsoever," he told the committee, "it would be a very bad situation" that could produce a "a financial market meltdown, which would cause very severe economic dislocation, which may be on the order of magnitude of Great Depression-type effects.
As the U.S. government embarks on a financial-rescue mission - whose cost is impossible to predict - the nation is already headed for a sustained period of budget deficits on a scale never seen before, said Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office. Mr. Orszag recently outlined a scenario in which $7 trillion in cumulative deficits could be piled up over the next 10 years.
Private sector and public retirement plans have seen their assets decline by roughly $2 trillion, according to a testimony given to the House of Representatives in October by Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office. Older workers are more highly compensated and carry higher health-care costs than their younger counterparts. The medical claims for employees 61 to 65 and their dependents hovers close to $8,000 annually, compared with $3,000 for workers 31 to 35, according to Towers Perrin. The trick for companies is to retain the experienced workers they want and need, while offering tools so older workers who are not high performers can retire when they are ready, experts say. For another lesson in how to encourage older workers to retire, private employers can look ...
Led by Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag, who took office in January, analysts have been providing presidential candidates and Congress with a steady drumbeat of depressing information about the nation's health care challenges. In its latest analysis, "The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending," CBO reports that total U.S. spending on health care increased from 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 1960 to 14.9 percent of GDP in 2005, when total spending on health care reached nearly $1.9 trillion. Public spending accounted for 46 percent ($847 billion) of those health care expenditures, including $342 billion for Medicare (the federal program that served 43 million elderly and disabled Americans in 2006) and $311 billion for Medicaid (the joint federal- st...
Some of our nation's largest health-care spending problems can be addressed by the most fundamental of solutions. Take, for example, the link between the future of America's economy and an inexpensive blood test. The director of the Congressional Budget Office, Peter Orszag, has been telling lawmakers and editorial boards that rising health care costs pose a fundamental risk to our economic future. He noted accurately that Medicare and Medicaid, if they continue growing at their current rate, are on a path to exceed 20 percent of the gross domestic product. This is not an insurmountable dilemma, as long as policymakers embrace a core, fundamental truth in their work to shape the future of public heath programs. It is this: It costs less to keep people healthy than to treat them when the...
Americans will spend about 16 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on health care this year. That will amount to about $2.3 trillion, or roughly four times what we will spend on national defense, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "At 16 percent of GDP, U.S. health spending is double the median of industrialized countries, and since 2000, [U.S. health spending] has been growing more rapidly than before," according to "U.S. Health System Performance: A National Scorecard," an article that appeared in the September 2006 issue of Health Affairs. By way of comparison, according to a report last year by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Kingdom spent 8.3 percent of its GDP on health; Canada spent 9.9 percent; Germany spent 10.9 percent; Spain sp...
WASHINGTON A federal rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers $25 billion, congressional budget experts said Tuesday, as lawmakers put finishing touches on legislation that would tap the troubled mortgage giants' profits to help save homeowners from foreclosure. A costly rescue is just a worry, not a fact at this point. Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, predicted in a letter to lawmakers that there's a better-than-even chance the government will not have to step in to prop up the companies by lending them money or buying stock.
Re-read that headline. I am not making this up. A health care bill exists that would accomplish what the headline says. Moreover, it has been verified by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in a letter signed in May 2008 by the office's then-Director Peter R. Orszag, who now directs President Obama's Office of Management and Budget.
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