A new brief by the Kaiser Family Foundation, The Budget Control Act of 2011: Implications for Medicare, provides an overview of the new law that came out of this summer’s negotiations on raising the debt ceiling and deficit reduction, including a timeline and process for raising the debt ceiling and lowering the federal deficit. The brief also describes the role of the new Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, aka the “Super Committee”, examines how Medicare spending could be affected by changes proposed by the Committee, or if that process fails, by sequestration. Click here to read the brief.
