[Matchett-PI]

A few minutes earlier she wrote:

CBO Reports In [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Via Politico:

The Congressional Budget Office has determined that the health reform plan will cost $940 billion over 10 years, but will trim the federal deficit by $130 billion in the first ten years and $1.2 trillion in the second ten years, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said.

The brief report adds:

Those deficit numbers should help ease the worries of deficit hawks on the fence about supporting the bill.

House GOP sources are not too surprised. Some raise this question though: Why is the whole report not being released? As I understand it, we’re only seeing selected points from the scoring, not the whole report. So there appears to be some confusion about what exactly is being counted.

03/18 09:15 AM

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[cookcounty]

"The Congressional Budget Office has determined that the health reform plan will cost $940 billion over 10 years, but will trim the federal deficit by $130 billion in the first ten years and $1.2 trillion in the second ten years, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said.

So...do these numbers include the unstudied "stipulation" that $500 billion will fall out of the sky from supposed "Medicare Savings?"

And just why have Democrats NOT asked for a CBO study of THAT?