Senate Finance Committee: Baucus Releases America’s Healthy Future Act

• Chairman’s Mark – America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009
  Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 [223 pages, PDF]

• 9-16-09 JCT Analysis of the America’s Healthy Future Act
• 9-16-09: Finance Committee Memo on Estimates of the America’s Health Future Act
• CBO: Preliminary Analysis of Specifications for the Chairman’s Mark of the America’s Healthy Future Act, September 16, 2009: “..the Chairman’s proposal would establish a mandate for most legal residents of the United States to obtain health insurance; set up insurance “exchanges” through which certain individuals and families could receive federal subsidies to substantially reduce the cost of purchasing that coverage; significantly expand eligibility for Medicaid; substantially reduce the growth of Medicare’s payment rates for most services (relative to the growth rates projected under current law); impose an excise tax on insurance plans with relatively high premiums; and make various other changes to the Medicaid and Medicare programs and the federal tax code…enacting the Chairman’s proposal would result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $49 billion over the 2010–2019 period…”