Purpose: record which requirements a law bears on, and how much money is attributable to each. Funding attaches to the connection, not to the bill: "what did this law cost" and "how much did Congress put behind this requirement" are different questions. Public Law 119-75 is roughly $1.177 trillion in total and $575 million attributable to the primary-care workforce requirement; only the second says anything about that requirement.
Procedure: read the enacted text and decide which requirements it genuinely bears on. For each, record a connection, then attribute funding to it if a provision-level figure exists. Not every connection gets an amount — where an effect is downstream of provisions already counted elsewhere, record the connection and leave the money where it was attributed. Then tag each connection with a direction and note in the Direction Tagging Queue, and regenerate the pages.
Attribution key: the safeguard against counting the same money more than once. Rows sharing a key describe the same appropriation; exactly one may be attributed and the rest are reference. A law bearing on six requirements would otherwise have its appropriation counted six times. The tool refuses a second attribution of the same key.
| Measure | Use when |
|---|---|
| enacted_appropriation | The law itself states the amount. |
| authorized_appropriation | The law authorises future appropriations. The money is not provided. |
| estimated_deficit_reduction | CBO estimate of reduced deficit from a spending reduction. |
| estimated_federal_budget_savings | CBO estimate of federal savings from a specific provision. |
| estimated_reduction_in_federal_medicaid_outlays | Reduced federal Medicaid spending. NOT the same as reduced national health expenditure. |
The measure is not cosmetic. Recording a savings figure as an appropriation inverts its meaning, and a reduction in federal outlays is not a reduction in what the country spends on health care.
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