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  The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budgetary analysis to the Congress. If you're looking for a job where you can analyze budgetary and economic effects of public policies, provide nonpartisan, objective analysis, support the Congress, and work with some of the brightest minds in policy analysis, CBO just might be the right place for you.
  
  DO NOT APPLY THROUGH USAJOBS. APPLY AT www.cbo.gov/careers The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budgetary analysis to the Congress. If you're looking for a job where you can analyze budgetary and economic effects of public policies, provide nonpartisan, objective analysis, support the Congress, and work with some of the brightest minds in policy analysis, CBO just might be the right place for you.
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Duties:

• Recent analytical work completed by the division has covered such topics as health insurance coverage for the nonelderly, Medicaids exclusion of payments for residents of institutions for mental diseases, the effects of changes in manufacturers future revenues on prescription drug development, the budgetary and coverage effects of lowering the age of eligibility for Medicare, the costs of illustrative single-payer systems, the uninsured population, projections of federal health care spending, and how a public option offered in nongroup health insurance markets might be designed. Ongoing work includes studies on a broad range of topics, including preventive health services, mental health, the development of new medical technologies, and factors affecting the prices and availability of medical services and the demand for those services.
  
  The health economist in this role will produce research reports about issues affecting the federal government and will help to develop new studies and to design and improve the analytical models used in CBOs analyses and its estimates of the costs of proposed legislation. One topic of particular interest to the agency is the impact of prevention and public health policies on health and budgetary outcomes in the long term. Another topic of interest is policies related to behavioral health, including those affecting the mental health care workforce and access to mental health care, and the budgetary outcomes of those policies. The economist will also collaborate with analysts in CBOs Budget Analysis Division to develop cost estimates for legislation and baseline estimates of the costs of government programs. Furthermore, CBOs economists have opportunities to publish the agencys research and their own research in CBO working papers and through submissions to academic journals.
  Recent analytical work completed by the division has covered such topics as health insurance coverage for the nonelderly, Medicaids exclusion of payments for residents of institutions for mental diseases, the effects of changes in manufacturers future revenues on prescription drug development, the budgetary and coverage effects of lowering the age of eligibility for Medicare, the costs of illustrative single-payer systems, the uninsured population, projections of federal health care spending, and how a public option offered in nongroup health insurance markets might be designed. Ongoing work includes studies on a broad range of topics, including preventive health services, mental health, the development of new medical technologies, and factors affecting the prices and availability of medical services and the demand for those services. The health economist in this role will produce research reports about issues affecting the federal government and will help to develop new studies and to design and improve the analytical models used in CBOs analyses and its estimates of the costs of proposed legislation. One topic of particular interest to the agency is the impact of prevention and public health policies on health and budgetary outcomes in the long term. Another topic of interest is policies related to behavioral health, including those affecting the mental health care workforce and access to mental health care, and the budgetary outcomes of those policies. The economist will also collaborate with analysts in CBOs Budget Analysis Division to develop cost estimates for legislation and baseline estimates of the costs of government programs. Furthermore, CBOs economists have opportunities to publish the agencys research and their own research in CBO working papers and through submissions to academic journals.
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