HealthCare Notes

8/22/12

CBO: Medicare Spending Growth Remains Slow

CBO: Medicare Spending Growth Remains Slow: In an update to a January report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that Medicare spending is growing more slowly than expected for the third year in a row. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf said the slower Medicare growth is consistent with the slower growth of health care costs in general, but he said the reason [...]/p