My Policy Hub

Improving health is our policy

  • Dashboard
  • Impact Insights
  • Issues
  • ACA Now
  • Search
  • Contact
  • Dashboard
  • Impact Insights
  • Issues
  • ACA Now
  • Search
  • Contact

ACA Now

1563 [sic.] - Sense of the Senate Promoting Fiscal Responsibility

 
Implementation Status 
Statutory Text 

Summary

Notes the Senate findings that based on CBO estimates, the ACA will reduce the Federal deficit in 2010-2019 and post-2019, as well as extend the solvency of the Medicare HI Trust Fund and increase the surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund; and that the initial net savings generated by the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program are necessary to ensure the long-term solvency of that program.

Also expresses the sense of the Senate that the additional surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund generated by the ACA should be reserved for Social Security and that the net savings generated by the CLASS program should be reserved for the CLASS program.

#Budget, #Long-Term Care

Implementation Status

 
Summary 
Statutory Text 

N/A

Statutory Text

 
Implementation Status 
Summary 

SEC. 1563 [sic]. SENSE OF THE SENATE PROMOTING FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the following findings: (1) Based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates, this Act will reduce the Federal deficit between 2010 and 2019. (2) CBO projects this Act will continue to reduce budget deficits after 2019. (3) Based on CBO estimates, this Act will extend the solvency of the Medicare HI Trust Fund. (4) This Act will increase the surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund, which should be reserved to strengthen the finances of Social Security. (5) The initial net savings generated by the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program are necessary to ensure the long-term solvency of that program. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Senate that— (1) the additional surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund generated by this Act should be reserved for Social Security and not spent in this Act for other purposes; and (2) the net savings generated by the CLASS program should be reserved for the CLASS program and not spent in this Act for other purposes. [Note section 10108, p. 835, provides for free choice vouchers.]

Browse ACA Titles

  • I-Quality, Affordable Health Care for all Americans
  • II-Role of Public Programs
  • III-Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Health Care
  • IV-Prevention of Chronic Disease and Improving Public Health
  • V-Health Care Workforce
  • VI-Transparency and Program Integrity
  • VII-Improving Access to Innovative Medical Therapies
  • VIII-Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS ACT)
  • IX-Revenue Provisions

ABOUT

  • Home
  • About Policy Hub
  • Free Newsletter
  • Team
  • Mission and Values
  • Contact Us

Contact Us

Impact Health Policy Partners 1301 K Street, NW, Suite 300W
Washington, D.C. 20005

(202) 309-0796
Contact Us

Copyright © 2025 ‐ Impact Health Policy Partners ‐ All Rights Reserved ‐ Privacy Policy ‐ Terms and Conditions ‐ Log in