Sec. 601. National health security budget
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By not later than September 1 before the beginning of each year (beginning with 2014), the Board shall establish a national health security budget, which— specifies the total expenditures (including expenditures for administrative costs) to be made by the Federal Government and the States for covered health care services under this Act; and allocates those expenditures among the States consistent with section 604. Pursuant to subsection (b), such budget for a year shall not exceed the budget for the preceding year increased by the percentage increase in gross domestic product.
The national health security budget shall consist of at least 4 components: A component for quality assessment activities (described in title V). A component for health professional education expenditures. A component for administrative costs. A component for operating and other expenditures not described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(C)(in this title referred to as the operating component ), consisting of amounts not included in the other components. A State may provide for the allocation of this component between capital expenditures and other expenditures. Taking into account the State health security budgets established and submitted under section 603, the Board shall allocate the national health security budget among the components in a manner that— assures a fair allocation for quality assessment activities (consistent with the national health security spending growth limit); and assures that the health professional education expenditure component is sufficient to provide for the amount of health professional education expenditures sufficient to meet the need for covered health care services (consistent with the national health security spending growth limit under subsection (b)(2)). The total expenditures specified in such budget shall be the sum of the capitation amounts computed under section 602(a) and the amount of Federal administrative expenditures needed to carry out this Act. For purposes of this subtitle, the national health security spending growth limit described in this paragraph for a year is
(A)zero, or, if greater,
(B)the average annual percentage increase in the gross domestic product (in current dollars) during the 3-year period beginning with the first quarter of the fourth previous year to the first quarter of the previous year minus the percentage increase (if any) in the number of eligible individuals residing in any State the United States from the first quarter of the second previous year to the first quarter of the previous year. In this title: The term capital expenditures means expenses for the purchase, lease, construction, or renovation of capital facilities and for equipment and includes return on equity capital. The term health professional education expenditures means expenditures in hospitals and other health care facilities to cover costs associated with teaching and related research activities.