Building Upon the Success of the Affordable Care Act With this funding, HHS will continue to create opportunities for all Americans by ensuring the building blocks for success are available at every stage of life, promote science and innovation, protect the nation’s public health and national security, and focus on the responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

The Budget proposes $82.8 billion in discretionary budget authority and additional mandatory funding to further support specific initiatives in the discretionary budget. The President’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 Budget for HHS includes investments needed to support the health and well being of the nation and legislative proposals that taken together would save on net an estimated $242 billion over 10 years. The Budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues and expands on critical investments in health care, scientific research, medical innovation, disease prevention, early education, social services, human development, and emergency preparedness to protect the health and well-being of the American people.

The Department of Health and Human Services enhances the health and well-being of Americans by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.

Advancing the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of the Nation The FY 2016 and FY 2017 mandatory figures reflect current law and mandatory proposals reflected in the Budget. This approach allows increases and decreases in this book to reflect true funding changes. Budget data in this book are presented “comparably” to the FY 2017 Budget, since the location of programs may have changed in prior years or be proposed for change in FY 2017.

Details in this document may not add to the totals due to rounding.

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