The State Department of Health Care Services released an
analysis of the impact of the United States Senate’s Better
Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) on California. The analysis states
that the BCRA would entail a massive fiscal shift from the
federal government to states, shifting $3 billion in costs to
California alone in 2020, increasing to $30.3 billion by 2027.
According to the analysis, “if the BCRA becomes law, California
will be faced with tens of billions of dollars in new costs that
could necessitate difficult decisions to be made regarding the
populations and benefits we choose to cover and how much we pay
providers and plans for the services they provide.”
CSAC, along with a host of county affiliates, also sent a letter
regarding the state and county impacts of the BCRA.
View the letter here.
