The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has recently completed a set of preliminary analyses of the Senate Finance Bill, America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 and H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.In these documents, CBO takes a look at the projected effects of each piece of prospective legislation on the national deficit and on the number of uninsured Americans over a time period ranging from Fiscal Year 2010 until Fiscal Year 2019, giving a ten year picture of each bill’s potential effects.The purpose of this primer is to highlight some of the more significant differences and salient effects of each bill as shown by the CBO analyses.To view the original documents, please visit the CBO website or click the links that follow after the outline provided below.
A.Purpose and Context of CBO Scoring
For more information and to see similar CBO publications, please visit the CBO website. Click here for documents relevant to the the health care reform legislation including the following:
* CBO's Analysis of the Effects of Proposals to Limit Costs Related to Medical Malpractice ("Tort Reform")
October 9, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Orrin G. Hatch
* An Analysis of Premiums Under the Chairman's Mark of the America's Healthy Future Act
September 22, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Max Baucus
* Additional Information on Insurance Coverage for Unauthorized Immigrants Under Proposed Health Care Legislation
September 22, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Chuck Grassley
* Supplemental Information on Potential Effects of the Affordable Health Choices Act
September 10, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Michael B. Enzi
* The Estimated Change in Medicare Part D Premiums from Provisions in H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act
of 2009
August 28, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Dave Camp
* The Budgetary Effects of Expanding Governmental Support for Preventive Care and Wellness Services
August 7, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Nathan Deal
* Additional Information Regarding the Effects of Specifications in the America's Affordable Health Choices Act Pertaining to
Health Insurance Coverage
July 26, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Dave Camp
* Approaches for Giving the President Broad Authority to Change Medicare
July 25, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Steny H. Hoyer
* Effects of Changes to the Health Insurance System on Labor Markets
July 13, 2009
Economic and Budget Issue Brief
* Likely Effects of Substantially Expanding Eligibility for Medicaid
July 7, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Judd Gregg
* Additional Information on CBO's Analysis of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act
July 6, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Kay R. Hagan
* CBO's Long-Term Model: An Overview
June 2009
* Health Care Reform and the Federal Budget
June 16, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Kent Conrad and the Honorable Judd Gregg
* Response to Questions About Health Care Industry Stakeholders' Proposals
June 16, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Dave Camp
* Preliminary Analysis of Major Provisions Related to Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Health Choices Act
June 15, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Edward M. Kennedy
* The Effects of Proposals to Increase Cost Sharing in TRICARE
June 2009
* The Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Change the Nation's Health Insurance System
May 27, 2009
Economic and Budget Issue Brief
* Information on Options for the Medicare Advantage Program's Benchmarks for Federal Payments
May 18, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Mike Crapo
* Estimated Effect on Direct Spending and Revenues of Title IV of Division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act: Health Information Technology
May 2009
* An Assessment of the Potential Effects of the Reductions in Medicare's Payment Rates for Physicians Called for Under
Current Law
March 27, 2009
Letter to the Honorable John M. Spratt Jr.
* Options for Controlling the Cost and Increasing the Efficiency of Health Care
March 10, 2009 html pdf webcast blog
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives
* The Department of Veterans Affairs' Pharmaceutical Prime Vendor Program
February 25, 2009
Letter to the Honorable Kent Conrad
* Options for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage and Controlling Costs
February 25, 2009
Testimony before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate
* Expanding Health Insurance Coverage and Controlling Costs for Health Care
February 10, 2009
Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate
The above documents and many more can be found on CBO's website by cllicking here.
