Global Aging Forum: Health Care and the Budget: Issues and Challenges for Reform

Speaker:
Peter R. Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office

Chaired by:
Richard Jackson, Director, CSIS Global Aging Initiative and Neil Howe, Senior Associate, CSIS

Dr. Peter Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, discussed health-care cost trends and reform options from his new vantage point at the CBO and shared his views on the relative importance of different cost drivers, which approaches to cost-saving reform show most promise, and whether effective control of federal health benefit spending is possible without more comprehensive reform.