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CBO says Senate bill will cut deficit $132 billion over 10 years
6 hours ago ago from Waveland Watchers
Posted: 19 Dec 2009 The Senate Democrats' health care bill could reduce federal deficits by $132 billion over the next 10 years, a long-awaited Congressional Budget Office analysis of the measure said Saturday. CBO reported that the bill, as well as 383 pages of changes proposed by Demoratic leaders Saturday, should mean 94 percent of eligible Americans would be insured by 2019, up from the current 83 precent. That would ...
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Senate Democrats said Saturday that they had closed ranks in support of legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system, ending months of internal division and clearing a path for quick Senate passage of President Obama's top domestic policy priority. This Story Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) secured the pivotal 60th vote after acceding to the demands of Sen. Ben Nelson ...
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The CBO finally scored the redrafted Senate health care bill, saying it will cost $871 billion over the next ten years. Not that anybody waited for the numbers before cutting a deal. This was never really about the numbers. It was about coming in below an arbitrary figure and passing the bill by an arbitrary date. It looks like both goals will be met. The CBO Director's Blog writes that "(t)he changes with the largest budgetary effects ...
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