Thursday, March 18, 2010

The CBO has scored the Democratic...

...health care bill and said it:

...would cost $940 billion over 10 years and cut the federal deficit over the next two decades — figures that should help ease the worries of fiscal hawks who have been reluctant about supporting the sweeping measure.

The bill would reduce the deficit by about $130 billion in the first 10 years and by $1.2 trillion over the second 10 years. (My emphasis.) It will expand coverage to 95 percent of Americans, according to Congressional Budget Office figures released Thursday by House Democrats.

Sounds like a good bill to me. It's also very similar to the reform Mitt Romney passed in Massachusetts and what the GOP proposed in response to Hillarycare back in 1993. (But more moderate than Nixon's plan in 1971.)

So how many Republicans are going to support it?

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