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

New York Times by David M. Herszenhorn, Robert Pear | Oct. 7, 2009 (News Report)

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 »

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Topics: Health Care, U.S. Congress, U.S. Budget, U.S. Economy
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Posted by: via Tom Friedman - Oct 7, 2009 - 2:06 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Fabrice Florin (review), Derek Hawkins (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review), Randy Morrow (review), Kristin Gorski (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Oct 7, 2009 - 2:07 PM PDT
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 by Derek Hawkins - Oct. 7, 2009

Good initial analysis of the highly anticipated CBO report. I'd like to see a few more sources, or some deeper comments from the ones they've got. The authors' response to the reader question at the end is especially helpful.

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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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  • 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 ...
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