The Governor’s Budget for FY 2015
The Governor’s budget proposal for FY15 does not include significant new revenue, which means that the investments he specifies for education, human services, and elsewhere are relatively modest.
Budget Resources
A Preview of the FY 2015 Budget
For the sixth year in a row Massachusetts starts the budget process facing a substantial gap between ongoing revenue and the cost of maintaining current services and commitments. We estimate the gap is approximately $514 million.
The Role of Trust Funds in MassHealth and Health Reform Spending: A Primer
This brief, produced by MMPI in partnership with the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, will supplement the MMPI budget analyses by providing information on trust funds that support health coverage programs in Massachusetts.
Budget Monitor: The FY 2014 Budget
All of the parts of the state’s FY 2014 budget are now in place. The budget includes new investments to fix and repair our state’s transportation system and to make higher education more affordable.
Health Care in the FY 2014 Budget
A new fact sheet, “Health Care in the FY 2014 Budget”, summarizes the budget’s impact on MassHealth (Medicaid) and other subsidized health coverage programs. The FY 2014 budget contains $13.32 billion in funding for MassHealth and other coverage programs, which represents an increase of 4.7 percent over current FY 2013 appropriations.
The Legislature’s Budget for FY 2014
The House and Senate have approved a budget, which means that most of the pieces of the FY 2014 budget are now in place. Most prominent among the investments is an effort to fix and repair our state’s transportation system. Beyond that, the investments tend to be modest, and narrowly targeted.
Health Care in the House and Senate Budget Proposals
This brief summarizes the House and Senate Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget proposals for MassHealth (Medicaid) and other subsidized health coverage programs. The House’s budget bill allocates $13.38 billion to these health care programs while the Senate bill allocates $13.45 billion. Both proposals are less than the Governor’s proposal of $13.6 billion. The House and Senate bills both reflect the significant changes to health care programs that will occur midway through the fiscal year, when central provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act take effect. This budget brief is the third in a series of FY 2014 reports describing the effect of various budget proposals on Health Care programs in Massachusetts. The briefs are produced by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in partnership with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute–and published by the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute (MMPI).
Conference Preview: Differences between the Senate and House Budgets for FY 2014
Last week, the Senate finalized its budget proposal for FY 2014. Our “Conference Preview” describes the major differences between the Senate budget and the House version, in order to highlight the decisions that the upcoming House-Senate Conference Committee will face.
The Senate Ways & Means Budget for FY 2014
As was true for the House, the Senate Ways & Means proposal relies on some new money to help fix and improve our Transportation system. The other investments specified in the proposal are fairly narrow–largely because they are constrained by the limited amount of available revenue.