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Congressional Budget Office Scores Finance Bill, Finds Reduction in Deficit, 94% Coverage

by: Matt Singer

Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 14:57:50 PM MST


The Congressional Budget Office has released its "score" of the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill. The bill actually reduces the deficit by over $80 billion over the next ten years and by more over time. It also likely leaves about 6% of the population uninsured.

The Finance bill is unique as I understand it in being long-term budget positive according to CBO projections, but it also seems to me that the score could be improved by adding a public option, which is still possibly in the cards, and that the outcome would be improved both by a public option and by taking some of those savings and routing them toward subsidies to achieve universal coverage.

Ezra Klein has more, of course, as does Jonathon Cohn.

Ezra thinks that this score will be sufficient to get the bill out of the Finance Committee, which is the most conservative committee in the Senate.

Remember, before this bill heads to the floor of the Senate, it will be merged with the HELP bill authored by Ted Kennedy (negotiators will include Harkin, Baucus, and the Administration). That merging is overseen by Harry Reid.

The House has yet to vote on a final bill and the progressive caucus is whipping hard on a public option.

Note, of course, that the Senate still has issues if Reid opts for a public option in the bill when it hits the floor. Max Baucus has been where he is because of the desire to break the filibuster. Reid can pursue a different route: daring Joe Liberman, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, and Kent Conrad to filibuster health reform.

Either way, once bills come out of the House and the Senate, into conference we go. Whatever comes out of there heads back for up or down votes but the Senate can still filibuster if some Dems and all the GOP decide to deny health reform an up-or-down vote.

Matt Singer :: Congressional Budget Office Scores Finance Bill, Finds Reduction in Deficit, 94% Coverage
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Those six percent (0.00 / 0)
Six percent of 300 million is 18,000,000 left uninsured. That's not acceptable. We can cover everyone with a single-payer system -- even Obama has said so this year.


94% coverage = 6% Revolt (0.00 / 0)
Unacceptable.

Especially for a $900b price tag that the 6% are going to have to help pay for, with nothing to show for it except a lessened ability to pay out of pocket for health care expenses.


matt is see your point about political reality (0.00 / 0)
but i believe the role of supporters of real change like myself, jay and others is to encourage our politicians to do as much of the "right thing" regarding bills like health care reform as we can convince them of having the courage to attempt. i don't see my role as an apologist for politicians who refuse to do what bobby kennedy talked about....see things as they could be and say why not....you obviously prefer the role as one of the arbiters of "what is possible"

i prefer to advocate and say why not?

therein lies the question. why do you encourage mediocrity from our politicians rather than demand the best they can do for us?  


How much for big insurance and pharma? (0.00 / 0)
Does the Congressional Budget Office score how much of the $900billion go to big pharma and the insurance companies?

and matt attracts another payday lender spammer to support his position... (0.00 / 0)
talk about bad company!

max baucus and slime devils just seem to go together....


I think DaliaY (0.00 / 0)
was being sarcastic. ;-)

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this isn't the first post, or author... (0.00 / 0)
...to attract spam. Deleted.

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Ummm... (0.00 / 0)
Re-reading Jonathan Cohn's piece, I noticed that the 94% was of the NON-MEDICARE population. Meaning 6% of those under 65 continued in the ranks of the uninsured.

Or 25 million people uninsured. And that's only "legals"

Totally unacceptable.

Why would anybody even think this bill has any reason to be considered? 900 billion dollars to cover less than half of the currently uninsured population. Insanity.  


You've gotta give credit to Max for being so fiscally responsible. (0.00 / 0)
Keeping the costs in check is really going to help this pass.

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