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Click here for Senate Bill as of 12-24-09 as pdf

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Click here for Senate bill and summaries by Democratic Policy Committee

Senate Manager's Amendment on Health Reform: Dec. 10, 2009

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Chart With Dates for Application of Insurance Reforms
From Senate Leadership: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act balances the idea that if you like what you have, you can keep it, with the need to reform and regulate the health insurance market. While health insurance plans that exist today are grandfathered, most experts believe that consumers will choose new plans that do comply with regulations included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Click here to download Table With Dates for Applications

Click here to see list of proposed Senate amendments Dec. 10

The Senate Democrats' health reform bill is online:
 
Full text here, 2074 pages (see below for links to summaries):

http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf

Analysis of the bill is available at:

The Kaiser Foundation compares the House bill with the Senate bill.

 

<http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/housesenatebill_final.pdf>http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/housesenatebill_final.pdf

 

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities comments:

Changes in Senate Health Bill Make Coverage More Affordable for Millions of Moderate-Income Families, Although not for Those on Low End of Subsidy Scale 

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3004

(follow the link if you get an error message)

  

And a paper on actuarial value:

http://www.cbpp.org/files/10-13-09health2.pdf

Commowealth Fund offers a recent analysis of the system change components in the House and Senate bills, 11/20/09 
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2009/Nov/Analysis%20of%20Health%20System%20Reform/Davis_BillsSystemReform_Exec%20Summ_cah.pdf

The following is available on the Democratic Policy Committee website:

 

http://dpc.senate.gov/dpcdoc-sen_health_care_bill.cfm

 

Summary

Background

Immediate Benefits

Provisions

Helping Americans

A pdf of the tax proposals in the bill is here: http://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=3635

 

Key budgetary and coverage figures from the CBO score:

http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10731/Reid_letter_11_18_09.pdf

 

Estimated Budgetary Impact

According to CBO and JCT’s assessment, enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $130 billion over the 2010–2019 period (see Table 1). In the subsequent decade, the collective effect of its provisions would probably be small reductions in federal budget deficits if all of the provisions continued to be fully implemented. Those estimates are subject to substantial uncertainty.

 

The estimate includes a projected net cost of $599 billion over 10 years for the proposed expansions in insurance coverage. That net cost itself reflects a gross total of $848 billion in subsidies provided through the exchanges, increased net outlays for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and tax credits for small employers; those costs are partly offset by $149 billion in revenues from the excise tax on high-premium

insurance plans and $100 billion in net savings from other sources. Over the 2010–2019 period, the net cost of the coverage expansions would be more than offset by the combination of other spending changes that CBO estimates would save $491 billion and other provisions that JCT and CBO estimate would increase federal revenues by $238 billion.

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