The payment formula came to be as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and has never been corrected permanently by Congress.
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For health care, he points to many of the legislative aspects of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which changed the industry's dynamics.
Contrary to what many thought when this process began, the health reform bills represent the biggest deficit reduction legislation since the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.
And in fact, it is through these reforms that we achieve the biggest reduction in our long-term deficits since the Balanced Budget Act of the 1990s.
Two years ago Congress, in a provision of the Balanced Budget Act known as Section 4507, in effect, prohibited doctors from treating Medicare-eligible patients outside the Medicare system.
There is a shortage of primary care doctors in this country yet the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 capped the number of residency slots that Medicare would fund?
Given looming cuts in Medicare payments to providers, a little-noticed study of the impact of payment cuts in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is even more intriguing.
Indeed, in the Canberra speech, he announced that in the context of our reviewing our budget on the security side for the next 10 years, which is what we're doing now under the Budget Control Act -- we're looking at the Defense Department budget and the deductions that need to be made under the Budget Control Act.
The fact is, because of the negotiations over the debt ceiling that resulted in the Budget Control Act, we have an unusual situation here in that the top lines for the budget going forward have already been set and agreed to by Republicans and Democrats alike.
The real world pact was the 2011 Budget Control Act, voted for by Congress.
That's what the sequester was part of when it was included in the Budget Control Act.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 was intended to provide breathing space and to buy time.
That's been his position since the day he signed the Budget Control Act.
The Budget Control Act is structured to reduce the deficit in two installments.
The deadline was created by legislation, the Budget Control Act of 2011.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 will cut off government subsidies of lower interest graduate student loans starting July 2012.
Historically only 9% of laid-off workers have opted for Cobra (named for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986).
Further reductions are coming with the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the failure of the equally misnamed congressional super-committee.
If you are blissfully unaware of the Republican-Democrat partisan artillery, the sequester is part of the 2011 Budget control Act.
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The law creating the sequester (the Budget Control Act of 2011) lowers statutory caps on the spending authority of federal agencies.
What's more, the budget control act requires an additional almost five hundred billion dollars in reductions over the next ten years.
The sequester was put into place as part of the Budget Control Act in order to compel Congress to do its job.
It has been assigned a goal by the Congress through the Budget Control Act that was signed into law by the President.
Nobody intended the provisions of the Budget Control Act to be enacted.
Then, the Budget Control Act was passed mandating half a trillion dollars in defense savings over a decade in ten equal, annual increments.
Beyond the politics of defense cuts, the wording of the Budget Control Act makes more slashing of weapons accounts inevitable if sequestration is triggered.
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The start of automatic spending cuts triggered by a White House-Congress debt-hike deal and passed as part of the Budget Control Act in 2011.
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The infamous Pease limitation was first incorporated into the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and it is named after former Congressman Donald Pease.
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What is the case, as you know from the Budget Control Act, is that there are already savings in both non-defense and defense discretionary spending.
Back in 1995, President Clinton vetoed the Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act.
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