New Budget Deal Targets Two Reform Measures

Congress' eleventh-hour budget deal for the last six months of FY 2011 targets two fairly minor measures in the healthcare reform law, according to a report by The Hill.

The deal, reached Friday evening, just before the government would have been shut down, strikes a provision allowing some workers to forgo their employer-based healthcare coverage and buy insurance in their own state's health insurance exchanges.

The deal also cuts $2.2 billion for healthcare co-operatives, which allow some workers to forgo employer healthcare coverage and opt instead for a contribution to buy insurance on their own in state health insurance exchanges. But the deal leaves $4.4 billion in 2012 funding for the program.

Read The Hill report on healthcare reform.

Read more coverage on federal budget cuts:

- Reform Law Protected in Last-Minute Budget Deal

- Medicare, Medicaid Cuts Expected in Upcoming Presidential Proposal

- Hospital Groups Slam GOP Budget Plan, Especially Medicaid Cuts

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