This is a PDF Transcript of Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director of CBO, on Options for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage and Controlling Costs.

Here are some sobering thoughts on efforts to cut health costs. Not only are health-care costs growing, but a lot of the ideas out there to cut them may not result in savings for the federal government or the nation within a decade.

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