If enacted, the reconciliation bill combined with the Senate-passed bill would, from 2010-2019:
-Spend $938 billion on expanding insurance coverage, including $464 billion in subsidies to help uninsured people buy coverage.
-Expand Medicaid coverage to 16 million additional people.
-Require many employers to offer coverage for their workers.
-Collect $69 billion in penalties from uninsured individuals and employers for non-coverage.
-Provide coverage through an insurance exchange to 24 million people.
-Reduce the number of uninsured by 32 million people, but leave 23 million (including illegal immigrants) not covered.
-Cut Medicare spending by $455 billion from currently-projected levels.
-Not affect next month’s scheduled 21 percent cut in payment rates to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
-Produce a net reduction in federal deficits of $143 billion.
