The CBO Just Released Its New Health Care Score. Reason for Relief?

New Republic by Jonathan Cohn | Oct. 7, 2009 (News Analysis)

(Blog Post) The good news, substantively and politically, is that CBO expects the measure would reduce budget deficits by $81 billion over the next decade and by even larger sums in the following decade, although it won't quantify that amount specifically because estimates are so imperfect that far out. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Oct 7, 2009 - 2:14 PM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Oct 7, 2009 - 2:32 PM PDT
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 by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Oct. 7, 2009

This is a CBO health care announcement.

This piece was like reading someone else's letter to mom. No intent to source it at all. Maybe it's the New Republic style and I'm not familiar with it yet.

Here’s my initial take, informed loosely by a few conversations with experts and insiders: More »

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