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The bill would make CBO publish long-range estimates showing potential preventive-care savings—improving evidence for prevention and possibly reducing future costs—while carrying risks that uncertain, nonbinding projections could mislead decisions and require added analytical resources.
Taxpayers could face lower long-term federal outlays if CBO's extended preventive-care outyear estimates demonstrate that prevention reduces future health spending, potentially easing future tax or spending pressure.
Patients with chronic conditions and population-health programs could be more likely to receive support or funding because projected long-run savings from prevention would be visible to authorizing committees and decisionmakers.
Lawmakers, policy analysts, and the public gain clearer fiscal evidence about the long-term benefits of prevention through CBO's descriptions and estimates, improving the information base for policymaking and debate.
CBO's preventive-care outyear estimates are supplementary and cannot be used for statutory budget enforcement, so published projected savings may have limited practical effect on actual budget decisions.
Extending projections into much later outyears increases analytic uncertainty; policymakers could rely on speculative long-term estimates that mislead fiscal judgments or distort priorities.
Preparing these supplementary long-range preventive-care estimates will increase CBO workload and resource needs, potentially diverting agency capacity or requiring additional funding.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires CBO, on bipartisan committee request, to produce supplementary long-term estimates of federal outlay reductions from preventive health interventions covering two 10-year outyear periods; estimates are informational only.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Angus Stanley King · Last progress November 19, 2025
Directs the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), when asked by the chair and ranking member of relevant authorizing committees in either House, to analyze and report whether proposed legislation could produce net reductions in federal outlays in long-term budget periods through preventive health care. If the CBO finds potential outlay reductions, it must include a description and estimate of those reductions and the basis for them in projections and may extend projections into two consecutive 10-year "budgetary outyears" beginning 10 years after the current fiscal year; those estimates are supplementary and cannot be used for statutory budget enforcement.