We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.
Doug Elmendorf Quotes
Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.
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| Birth: | 1961 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Economist |
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Douglas William Elmendorf was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is an American economist who was the Director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2009 to 2015. He was a Brookings Institution senior fellow from 2007 to 2009, and was a director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings. He will become the Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School in January of 2016.
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