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Requires CBO, on request by budget committee leaders, to estimate and describe net federal outlay reductions in distant outyears from preventive health care and may produce extended projections.
The bill makes long‑range, supplementary CBO scoring available to highlight potential downstream savings from preventive care — improving transparency and the case for prevention — but those estimates are uncertain, non‑binding for budget rules, and could be politicized.
Taxpayers could pay less in the long run if preventive-care measures demonstrably reduce future federal spending, because the bill prompts supplementary long‑range CBO estimates that may highlight downstream savings.
Policymakers and the public will get clearer information about the long‑term fiscal effects of prevention‑focused legislation via required supplementary CBO descriptions and estimates, improving transparency and policy debate.
Patients with chronic conditions and beneficiaries of Medicaid and Medicare may see greater recognition and potentially more support for preventive programs when supplementary scoring highlights downstream savings.
Supplementary savings estimates are explicitly non‑binding for statutory budget enforcement, so bills that rely on those projected savings may still face pay‑fors or enforcement shortfalls affecting budget outcomes.
Extending CBO projections far into the future (20–30 years) increases uncertainty and may produce low‑predictive‑value estimates, risking misleading expectations about actual savings for taxpayers and policymakers.
Allowing committee leaders to request supplementary favorable scoring could politicize which preventive interventions receive attention, producing unequal consideration for hospitals, health systems, and patients with chronic conditions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Official title: Amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Angus Stanley King · Last progress November 19, 2025
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), when requested by the chair and ranking member of the budget committee of primary jurisdiction in either chamber, to determine whether proposed legislation would produce net outlay reductions in distant “budgetary outyears” through preventive health care and, if so, include a description and estimate of those reductions and their basis in CBO projections. The bill also authorizes (but does not require) CBO to produce extended outyear projections beyond current statutory timeframes for that purpose, clarifies that such estimates are supplemental and cannot be used to enforce budget rules, and defines the terms “budgetary outyears” and “preventive health care.”