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1 Plans to Update CBO's Health Insurance Simulation Model 1 (November 14, 2018)

handle is hein.congrec/cbopuhi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Keith Hall, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 November 14, 2018 Honorable Mike Enzi Chairman Committee on the Budget U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 Re: Plans to Update CBO's Health Insurance Simulation Model Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to your recent inquiry about the Congressional Budget Office's health insurance simulation model (HISIM) and our work on updating it. HISIM is one of the tools that we use to produce baseline budget projections and cost estimates for legislation related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).1 We are currently enhancing it through a process that is thorough and transparent and that includes extensive peer review and broad external validation. CBO has long been dedicated to providing information that is objective, insightful, timely, and clearly presented and explained. In order to ensure independent, nonpartisan analysis, CBO must make choices about what models to use and when to use them on the basis of its best analytical assessment. Those choices are informed by knowledge and insight that CBO solicits from outside experts as part of its effort to be transparent. CBO's dedication to transparency applies strongly to its analyses of federal subsidies for health insurance. For instance, CBO has frequently published material about those analyses in the past and then sought input about those 1 For a discussion of HISIM's role in the analytic process, see Congressional Budget Office, How CBO and JCT Analyze Major Proposals That Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage (February 2018), www.cbo.gov/publication/53571. www.cbo.gov

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