Scoring Health Reform—Congress Needs a Wider Aperture and Longer Exposure

Dana Goldman; Erin Trish

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1542

June 26, 2026JAMA Health ForumOpen Access

Scoring Health Reform—Congress Needs a Wider Aperture and Longer Exposure

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The aim is to critique the current scoring system used by the Congressional Budget Office for health policy decisions, highlighting its inadequacies.
Review of the Congressional Budget Office scoring system
Analysis of long-term impacts of health policy decisions
Current scoring system underrepresents the long-term economic impacts of health policies.
Inadequate analysis may lead to poor decision-making in Congress regarding health reform.

Implication

This Viewpoint discusses the scoring system for health policy, revealing its limitations in analyzing long-term consequences.

Abstract

This Viewpoint discusses the scoring system used by the Congressional Budget Office for health policy decisions and explores the long-term consequences that receive inadequate analysis within this system.

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Goldman et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a40bb1461bb0a67205c6c9d https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1542

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Scoring Health Reform—Congress Needs a Wider Aperture and Longer Exposure

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Scoring Health Reform—Congress Needs a Wider Aperture and Longer Exposure

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