Budget Control Act: Potential Impact of Sequestration on Health Reform Spending

Redhead, C. Stephen

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Budgets;    Federal budgets;    Health services administration;    Medical care;    Medicaid;   

RP-ID  :  R42051
RP-ID  :  R42051_2013May01

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report examines how automatic spending reductions triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) might affect health reform implementation under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of ACA's health insurance reforms and some analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) estimates of the impact of the law's implementation on federal direct spending and revenues. The second section examines the automatic spending reductions under the BCA. The final section discusses which types of health reform spending are likely subject to, or exempt from, those reductions.