The Office of Management and Budget has the budget up in a gazillion different pdf's.
I posted a couple of times yesterday about the release of data for the budget but no one seemed interested.
There will be a press briefing at 1pm eastern with the Department of Health and Human Services where they will go through their "Budget in Brief".
As I said yesterday, the budget includes $178 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 5 years.
The pertinent parts of the PAYGO budget proposals can be found on page 215 of the Budget Reform Proposals pdf file.
(I apologize for the formatting.)
Table 15–1. MANDATORY PROPOSALS SUBJECT TO PAYGO
(Cost/Savings (–) in millions of dollars)
Proposals.......2008......2009.......2010..........2011........2012.........2013 .........2008–13
Medicare ..................–12,437 –26,875 –39,798 –45,741 –53,384 –178,235
State Children’s Health Insurance Program
................................2,260 3,005 4,010 4,680 5,315 19,270
Medicaid ........140 –1,767 –2,924 –3,758 –4,305 –4,671 –17,285
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation premiums
................................–380 –2,217 –2,093 –2,127 –2,056 –8,873
Outlay effects of tax proposals
..................................–37 3,082 2,570 1,973 1,249 8,837
Social Services Block Grant
............................................ –1,445 –1,683 –1,700 –1,700 –6,528
Federal student aid programs
...............................–2,763 –775 –801 –885 –859 –6,083
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge leasing
................................................. –3,502 –2 –503 –3 –4,010
Other proposals
................–148 –1,140 –1,807 –920 –660 –1,809 –6,484
Total
...............–8 –16,263 –33,458 –42,475 –49,268 –57,918 –199,391
Total, 2008 and 2009
..............................–16,271
Update [2008-2-4 13:35:18 by arielle]::
I felt like I should probably add this to the body.
The proposed legislative cuts in the Medicare budget include, but are not limited to:
Hospital, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Hospice, Inpatient Rehab Facilities, Long-Term Care hospitals, Outpatient Hospital services,and Home Health services all of which they propose to freeze at current rates 2009-2011 and then adjust the Market Basket (a fixed list of items used specifically to track the progress of inflation in a specific market) downward 0.65% annually thereafter.
Ambulance services and Ambulatory Surgical facing the same.
Opening up competitive bidding for laboratory services would save an estimated $2,290,000,000 over 5 years.
They want to reduce indirect medical education ($12,900,000,000), establish a 13-month rental period for power wheelchairs, and reduce the time you can rent oxygen equipment from 36 months to 13.
They want to "modernize" (wtf does that mean?) payments for end stage renal disease resulting in over a billion dollars worth of cuts as well as extend their secondary payer status for ESRD from 30 to 60 months.