Pocan Introduces Legislation to Help Address Long-Term Health Care Costs
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Wisconsin colleague U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble (WI-08) this week introduced bipartisan legislation that will provide the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) with the tools and resources necessary to conduct better long-term analyses about the costs and benefits of future health care legislation.
H.R. 4444, the "Long-Term Studies of Comprehensive Outcomes and Returns for the Economy Act" or "Long-Term SCORE Act," would create a new long-term scoring division dedicated to analyzing legislation and its impacts on federal programs, particularly ones that focus on investments in medical research and disease prevention, over the next fifty years.
“The Long-Term SCORE Act will help us by providing the structure to the Congressional Budget Office to regularly and efficiently handle requests for long-term cost estimates,” said Representative Pocan. “One of the key drivers of increased health care spending in the United States is the prevalence of chronic diseases. We know that investing in effective prevention programs early can save taxpayers money in the long-run. This bipartisan agreement will help Congress make the smart decisions today that will improve the quality of life for Americans in the future.
More than 60 top economists endorse the Long-Term SCORE Act
CBO ECONOMISTS STATEMENT | |||
NAME | AFFILIATION | ||
1 | Gordon J. Alexander | University of Minnesota | |
2 | Zolton Acs | George Mason University | |
3 | James J. Angel | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton | |
4 | Avner Ben-Ner | University of Minnesota | |
5 | Cyrus Bina | University of Minnesota | |
6 | Phillip Bryson | Brigham Young University | |
7 | Sean Cash | Tufts University | |
8 | Roger Bove | West Chester University | |
9 | Warren Coats | n/a | |
10 | Peter Cramton | University of Maryland | |
11 | Walter Dolde | University of Connecticut | |
12 | Christian Dippon | NERA Economic Consulting | |
13 | Gregory Price | Langston University | |
14 | John Merrifield | University of Texas-San Antonio | |
15 | Peter Schaeffer | West Virginia University | |
16 | Danilo Santini | Argonne National Laboratory | |
17 | John Sorrentino | Temple University | |
18 | Cornelia Strawser | n/a | |
19 | Thomas Schellberg | Casper College | |
20 | Cliff Russell | Vanderbilt University | |
21 | Roger van Haefen | North Carolina State University | |
22 | Rob Wassmer | California State University, Sacramento | |
23 | Nicolaus Tideman | Virginia Tech University | |
24 | Kevin Williams | DeLaroche & Company, Inc. | |
25 | Eric Woychik | Strategy Integration, LLC | |
26 | Marcus Hulbert | n/a | |
27 | Henry Levin | Columbia University, Teachers College | |
28 | Andrea Maneschi | Vanderbilt University | |
29 | Paul Hudson | n/a | |
30 | Paul Hughes-Cromwick | Altarum Institute | |
31 | John Tomer | Manhattan College | |
32 | Walter McMahon | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
33 | Naveen Khanna | Michigan State University | |
34 | John Miller | Wheaton College | |
35 | Shannon Mitchell | Virginia Commonwealth University | |
36 | Lawrence Kotlikoff | n/a | |
37 | Mary Goldschmid | n/a | |
38 | David Gogerty | n/a | |
39 | Ken Acks | The Cost Benefit Group | |
40 | Tania Barham | University of Colorado-Boulder | |
41 | Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, Ph.D. | Amherst College | |
42 | Elizabeth Bogan | Princeton University | |
43 | Jon Birkeli | LaGrange College | |
44 | Patricia Byrnes | University of Illinois Springfield | |
45 | Daniel Finn | St. John's University | |
46 | Andrew Healy | Loyola Marymount University | |
47 | C. Richard Shumway | Washington State University | |
48 | Dave Garthoff | University of Akron | |
49 | Marvin Feldman | Resource Decisions | |
50 | Robert Haveman | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
51 | Charles Rock | Rollins College | |
52 | Shah Shahjahan | Pepco Holdings, Inc. | |
53 | Kalyan Singhal | University of Baltimore | |
54 | Beth Wilson | Humboldt State University | |
55 | Tetsuji Yamada | Rutgers University | |
56 | Thomas Weisskopf | University of Michigan | |
57 | Glenn Loury | Brown University | |
58 | Stanley Masters | State University of New York at Binghamton | |
59 | Thomas Muench | Stonybrook University | |
60 | Michelle Michot Foss | University of Texas | |
61 | B Patrick Joyce | Michigan Technological University | |
62 | Jerrold P. Katz | J.P. Katz & Associates | |
63 | Todd Knoop | Cornell College |
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