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Battle Between David Broder And Harry Reid Heats Up: Broder Comments 'Mind-Boggling'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...

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Senate Dems Close In On Reform: Details Of Health Care Bill Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...

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Housing Market Buoyed By $300 BILLION In Government Aid: CBO

Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Aid, Cbo, Mortgage, Time, Congressional Budget Office, Housing Crisis, Affordable Housing, Business News

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office attempts to put a number on the amount of money the government has poured into the housing market. C...

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CBO Analysis: Both House Plans Would Cover At Least 35 Million Uninsured

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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Two competing House health care reform proposals would extend coverage to at least 35 million Americans within ten years, according to a Congressional...

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Why is Harry Reid Covering Up a Secret Senate Filibuster?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Poll, Public Option, Democrats in Nevada, Creigh Deeds, Filibuster, Cbo, Politics News

"One or two votes shy" of the public option means Reid is allowing members of the Democratic caucus to threaten a filibuster behind closed doors and dictate what will be in the bill he brings to the floor.

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House Cuts Health Bill Price To $871 Billion: AP Source

AP | ERICA WERNER and DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — House Democrats are aiming to scale back the cost of their health care bill to well below President Barack Obama's preferred price ...

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The Public Option Is Not Where You Draw the Line

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Subsidies, Cbo, Single Payer, Public Option, Health Care Costs, Politics News

Many are rallying around the public option like it's a singular opportunity to save the world. It's not; it's not even close.

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CBO Health Care Estimates: Washington Post Profiles Agency That Estimates Health Care Bills' Costs

Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Care Bill, Insurance Companies, Phil Ellis, CBO Numbers, Public Option, House, Cbo, Reform, CBO Estimates, CBO Costs, Negotiations, Health Insurance Companies, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Senate, Home News

Phil Ellis may be the most powerful guy you've never heard of in the health-care debate. A senior analyst with the Congressional Budget Office, Ellis ...

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Can Progressives and Conservatives Agree on Health Care Reform?

Mike Lux | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Mike Ross, Medicare for All, Public Option, Cbo, 2009 Obama Adminsitration, Politics News

Open up the perfectly good public option we have -- Medicare -- to anyone. That would actually strengthen Medicare because younger, healthier people would be joining the risk pool.

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Cadillac Tax: Congress Is Split On Reform Effort To Tax Costly Health Care Plans

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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A proposed tax on high-cost, or "Cadillac," health insurance plans has touched off a fierce clash between the Senate and the House as they wrestle ove...

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"Cadillac" Health Plans a Smooth Ride or a Bumpy Road?

Robin Baker | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Health Care Reform, Jay Rockefeller, Congressional Budget Office, Colorado Politics, Senate Finance Committee, Cbo, Cadillac Health Insurance Plans, Denver News

The Finance Committee's proposal would impose a tax on employer-sponsored insurance for plans with costs above $21,000 for a family. In Colorado, the average annual premium cost was $11,952 for a family.

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New York Times: Lobbyists Fighting Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- As the health care debate moves to the floor of Congress, most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama's original vow to cur...

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Wait For Health Care Benefits Is 3 Years If Health Care Bill Passes

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Sixty years is how long Democrats say they've been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They...

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Conservatives ... You Can't Handle the CBO!

Bill Scher | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cbo, Heritage Foundation, Max Baucus, Mary Katherine Ham, Senate Finance Committee, Weekly Standard, Olympia Snowe, Politics News

Conservatives are straining to claim that the plain English version of the Baucus bill is completely meaningless. Which is, of course, all nonsense.

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CBO: Dumping Public Option for Co-Ops Does Not Save Money

Bill Scher | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Baucus' bill costs less in the eyes of the CBO because 1) Baucus covers less people than the other proposed bills and 2) CBO really likes the tax on generous insurance plans.

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'Gang Of Six' Moving Goal Posts On Health Care Costs

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cbo, CBO Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Reform, Congressional Budget Office, Kent Conrad, Gang of Six, Politics News

President Obama promised last week, in his address to Congress, that he wouldn't sign any health care reform bill that added "one dime to the deficit,...

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David Brooks' Lies on Health Care Reform: An Incomplete List

David Fiderer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

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A lot of people buy in to Brooks' pseudo-intellectual shtick for making grand pronouncements that presume to define reality.

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The Public Option is Popular, Moral and Inexpensive, Therefore it Must Die

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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There's no ambiguity about it. The public option is resoundingly popular, fiscally conservative and morally sound. It's centrist, it's liberal, it's conservative. Unless you don't believe in, you know, numbers.

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Study: CBO May Be Missing Potential Savings From Efforts To Prevent Diabetes, Heart Disease

Reuters | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: CBO Health Plan, Congressional Budget Office, Cbo, Health Savings, CBO Health Care Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congressional Budget Office may be missing potential savings from various health reform proposals by not looking at efforts...

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Irresponsibly Following the Congressional Budget Office

Dean Baker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Stimulus, Health Care, Budget, Cbo, Congressional Budget Office, Business News

Members of Congress would be foolish to ignore the projections provided by the CBO, however they would be irresponsible if they treated this analysis as the final word.

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Rebutting the CBO's Preventative Care Cost Analysis

Chris Fey | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Preventative Healthcare, Cbo, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care, Preventative Care, Living News

The United States can no longer afford a system where 70 percent of deaths and nearly 80 percent of health care costs stem from the same preventable chronic conditions.

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CBO Warns of Higher Unemployment: Washington Worries About the Deficit

Dean Baker | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Recession, Budget, Congressional Budget Office, Financial Crisis, Cbo, Business News

The CBO will release a new set of economic projections for the next decade that are likely to show a cumulative deficit that is $2 trillion higher than the deficit projected in January.

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CBO Gives Boost To Obama Health Plan

Reuters | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf, Cbo, Obama Health Care Plan, Steny H. Hoyer, President Obama, Obama, Lewin Group, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives pounced on a congressional budget analysis to bolster their plan for a government-run health insurance ...

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Health Policy Hashed Out In Senate Over Unhealthy Food

The New York Times | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Michael B. Enzi, Jeff Bingaman, Cbo, Chuck Grassley, Kent Conrad, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicaid, Max Baucus, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care, Politics News

On the agenda is the revamping of the American health care system, possibly the most complex legislation in modern history. But on the table, in a con...

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Orszag Vs. CBO: The Battle Over The Budget Gets Personal

MSNBC | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Cbo, Budget, Ezra Klein, Bill Clinton, Office of Management and Budget, Steve Elmendorf, Obama Administration, White House Budget Director, Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office, Boston Globe, Politics News

"Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag accused Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf of 'overstepping' in a Web post Sat...

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