Analysis Sees Baucus Bill Meeting Obama’s Cost and Deficit Targets

The cost analysis is in: the Senate Finance Committee’s health care legislation, as amended during seven days of debate, would cost a projected $829 billion over 10 years, up from $774 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And it would reduce the future federal deficit by $81 billion, up from an earlier projected deficit reduction of $49 billion.

That would seem to be good news for Democrats and the White House. President Obama ... Full Story »

Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Tom Friedman

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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 7, 2009

Informative news report about the Congressional Budget Office's preliminary report that the proposed health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by $81 billion over 10 years. Given that this is breaking news story, there is only a single source and not a lot of context, but I found this report to be more detailed and nuanced than accounts other sources.

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