$2.5 trillion — Cost of the bill is over 10 years of full implementation
$848 billion — Subsidies provided through the exchanges, increased net outlays for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and tax credits for small employers.
$493.6 billion — New taxes on individuals and employers
$464 billion — Cuts to Medicare
$149 billion — Excise tax on high-premium insurance plans
$130 billion — The projected net reduction in federal deficits of over the 2010-2019 period
$120 billion — Changes to existing law regarding tax preferences for health care and effects of other provisions on tax expenditures for health care
$25 billion — Unfunded state mandates in additional Medicaid expenditures over the 2010–2019 period
$15 billion — Amount allocated to establish a Prevention and Public
Health Fund.
$8 billion — Penalty payments by employers whose workers received subsidies
25 million – People who would purchase their own coverage through the new insurance exchanges
24 million — People would be left without insurance
19 million — People who will get a subsidy to help them buy health insurance
4 million — People the CBO estimates will choose the public option
$23,000 — The initial threshold for a single policy that will be subject to a
40 percent excise tax
$8,500 — The initial threshold for a single policy that will be subject to a
40 percent excise tax
2,074 — Number of pages of the bill
2,014 — The year most nonelderly people with income below 133 percent of the Federal Poverty Level would be made eligible for Medicaid.
$750 — The penalty an employer would have to pay for each full-time worker who obtained subsidized coverage (See 50)
50 — The number of workers an employer must have before they would have to pay a penalty if they did not offer coverage (See $750)
Source: CBO letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dated November 18, 2009. Website: http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10731