we asked henry aaron if that met our sponsibilities to tseho couldn't afford medicacare is wouldt beroblem if all states providedenefits as generous ashose in say the upper third or upper half of the distribution. sometates provide meager medicaid benefits-- fewer than 10 days a year ofospitalization severe limits on the number of doctor's visits one can receive-- so that even moderate illnesses may t be fully protected under the medicaid program. in addition, the population that may be served by the medicaid program in many states is quite narrowly defined. so notwithstandi e fact thamedicaid is the federal health program for the poor millions of poor americans are not cored by any benefits at all they don't have government protection or private insurance because they're unemployed or because they work in jobs that don't provide suchoverage. about 15% to 20% of the american population at the present time has little or no health insurance protection either through priva insurance or government progms. in the 1970s, medicare and medicaid costs mounted. as the burdens on state governme

i think only henry aaron hasn't worked at cbo out of this grew.alice rivlin actually created it and i will get your in just a moment but sitting to my right is bob hale it was along with jack mayer my direct boss at cbo but he made up for that part of this grew by doing amazing things thereafter even though he had to supervise me fo for a wh. u.s. comptroller of the air force in the 1990s for much of the clinton administration if it wasn't a just about a year, the cultural of entire department of defense. and between editors other jobs including running the national comptroller association but i learned a great deal about defense strategy from bob as well. this is very probably is lead going into the christmas season nonot to have to be the scrooge again because he's the guy that handle sequestration and probably made him feel like in terms of his workload like the grinches dock at time trying to pull all those presents the top of the mountain but he got through it and remarkably actually i think it's a huge credit to bob and to many others in the

i think only henry aaron hasn't worked at cbo out of this grew.lice rivlin actually created it and i will get to her in just a moment, but sitting to my right is bob hale who was along with jack mayer my direct boss at cbo but he made up for that part of this crew by doing amazing things thereafter even though he had to supervise me for for a while. u.s. comptroller of the air force in the 1990s for much of the clinton administration if it wasn't a just about a year, the cultural of entire department of defense. and between other jobs including running the national comptroller association, i learned a great deal about defense strategy from bob as well. remarkably, it is a huge credit to pop and many others many -- many others in the military that dod kept functioning in this incredibly difficult period . he will be putting this current issue and broader context in terms of military compensation reform and the department of defense's overall budget challenge. carla tighe murray is a ph.d economist at university of illinois. she also worked at the p

they are all on our web site but in addition to the papers are colleague henry aaron has written a paper which he posted which expresses a bit of skepticism about the usefulness of long-term projection. i'm very pleased to be joined by three people who actually have practiced at this art and science. bill hoagland who is now with a bipartisan policy center and spent 33 years in the federal government 25 of them in the u.s. senate. most of that time on budget issues and he did little stands in the private sector at cigna but we don't hold that against him. gene sperling has been a fixture in washington since the original bill clinton campaign and director of the national economic council not once but twice. the actually one in one of his few periods out of government was the director of the center of universal education which is the brookings foreign relations joint venture -- venture but most importantly if you don't like triggers you can blame gene because he had something to do with almost everyone that i can remember in the time that he has been in washington. frenemy have jim cooper

only henry aaron has not worked out of this crew. alice rivlin actually created it. i will get to her in a moment. immediately to my rye, bob heal, along with jack my direct boss at cbo. he made up for that part of his career by doing amazing thing thereafter even though he had to supervise me for a while. he was comptroller of air force in 1990s for much of the clinton administration. he was about a year ago comptroller for entire department of defense. in between he did various other jobs including a running the snags comptroller association. i learn ad great deal of defense strategy for bob. this year he is probably glad going into christmas season not being scrooge again. he is the guy had to handle sequestration. made him feel like work load like grins dog trying to pull all the presents to the top of the mountain. got through it remarkably. i think it's a huge credit to bob and many others in the military that dod kept functioning through this incredibly difficult period and a lot of other accomplishments as well. he will put this issue in broader complex refor

only only henry aaron has now worked at cb a lot of this crew.i will get to her in a moment, but sitting immediately to my right thing made up for that part of his career by doing amazing things thereafter. controller of the air force. this is the year he is glad going into the christmas season because he is the guy that had the handle sequestration. in terms of his workload like the grinch's dog. he got through it remarkably actually. it's a huge credit to bob and many others in the military. they they kept functioning. a lot of other compliments as well. military compensation, department of defense. she also worked at the pentagon but is now at the congressional budget office and has what recent options papers and studies on defense health care that it talked about the ways in which among other things some of the cost might be shifted a bit more within reason to the actual members of the military and their families because as many of you no this is a generous system in terms of the cost-sharing. most of most of us would agree with that philosop

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i think the deeper question and one that came up in the first panel this morning and when that henry aaron raises is that by giving long run forecasts, are you conveying something to policymakers that we do not really know that might in a different state of the world for we have now laid them to do something that is harmful? >> we have wrestled with how much weight to give to forecasts of our different horizons. over our long term projections go out 75 years, other reports were issued talk about 25 years and 50 years down that we have reduced the emphasis on recognizing that we have less knowledge about what will happen at that horizon. is important for us to continue to do work that looks as hard as we can the projection over the next way five years. because the challenges that the country faces are not just short-term and the policy responses that are being weighed are not just short-term responses. they are gradual responses in general. we will -- want to move beyond the 10 year window. look out overt to a longer time than the standard tenure budget window. we are transparent in the gre

yes, henry aaron. >> this is a question for you, doug, with respect to the alternative fiscal scenario projection which in many quartz is regarded as, perhaps, more realistic than the extended baseline. actually, one of my questions refers to both projections. during the first session when commenting on the projections of social security and medicare hospital insurance, peter diamond observed that the probability that scheduled benefits would be paid in both programs and current revenues would be collected in both programs was the probability of those joint events was about zero. yet both extend the baseline and alternative fiscal scenario assume that that zero probability event will occur and is fed into the projections. my question is, what do you think about that? and are you bound by instructions or statute to estimate in that way or was this a decision of cbo. the other question relates to the alternative fiscal scenario only, which is the assumption that revenues will continue beyond the ten-year budget window at 18% of gdp. which is based on historical analysis but historical an

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