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Session 2: The Outlook for Health Care Spending
There is no shortage of proposals for "reform" of federal policies toward health care. But all must face the realities of a rapidly growing elderly population, spending constraints, and competing priorities for tax changes. The director of the Congressional Budget Office will describe some of the choices, their implications and how CBO helps Congress sort them out.
Presentations
Speakers
Peter Orszag
Congressional Budget Office
Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of CBO. His four-year term began on January 18, 2007.
Before joining CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project; Director of the Retirement Security Project; and Codirector of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute.
In previous government service, Dr. Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council during 1997 and 1998. Earlier, he served as a staff economist and then Senior Adviser and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar. He has coauthored or coedited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s (2002).
Dr. Orszag is an avid runner and the proud father of two children, Leila and Joshua.
