What Are the Causes of Projected Growth in Spending for Social Security and Major Health Care Programs?

In this report released on July 18, 2014,  Xiaotong Niu and Julie Topoleski, analysts in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division explained the CBO's analysis of the causes of projected spending growth for Social Security and federally funded health care programs through 2039.  The report is a follow-up to the CBO’s 2014 long-term budget outlook . . .