S.Amdt. 139

SA 139. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Merkley) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution
S. Con. Res. 3, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting

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forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through
2026; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO DEBT
INCURRED FROM HEALTH CARE EXPENSES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to additional financial protections for consumers
from the effects of any changes to the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, the Medicare program, the Medicaid
program, or the Children's Health Insurance Program that
result in increases in the costs of health care and in health
care-related debts on consumer credit reports, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through
2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through
2026.
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