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1 Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017 and the Individual Mandate 1 (2017)

handle is hein.congrec/bihsbzvm3950 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Keith Hall, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 November 29, 2017 Honorable Patty Murray Ranking Member Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Re: The Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017 and the Individual Mandate Dear Senator: In October 2017, the Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) published a cost estimate for the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017 (BHCSA), and in November 2017 the agencies published an updated estimate for repealing the individual health insurance mandate.' This letter responds to your request for additional information about those estimates. In your letter of November 21, 2017, you asked about the combined effects of simultaneously passing the BHCSA and legislation that would repeal the requirement that most U.S. citizens and noncitizens who lawfully reside in the country have health insurance meeting specified standards. Specifically, you asked if legislation that combined the provisions would change the agencies' previous estimates of the number of people with insurance coverage or premiums in the nongroup insurance market. In the estimate for the BHCSA, the agencies wrote that, relative to the Summer 2017 baseline, the legislation would not substantially change the number of people with health insurance coverage, on net. Because CBO's baseline incorporates the assumption that cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) will be fully funded, premiums would not change under the BHCSA relative to that baseline. In the estimate of repealing the individual health insurance mandate, the agencies wrote that repealing the mandate would 1. Congressional Budget Office, Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2017 (October 2017), w/and Repealing the Individual Health Insurance Mandate: An Updated Estimate (November 2017),

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