CBO Releases Two Analyses Related to the Affordable Care Act
from CBO Recent CBO Publications
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court issued a decision that essentially made the expansion of the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) a state option rather than what appeared to be mandatory for states that wanted to continue receiving federal matching funds for any part of their Medicaid program.
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have prepared two analyses that take into account that decision:
http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43473