Breaking Down the Senate Health Plan Numbers

Now that the veil has been lifted, here are a few of the important numbers surrounding the Senate’s health reform bill, courtesy of the Congressional Budget Office.

• $848 billion: Ten-year cost of the proposal, all of it offset by revenue increases and budget cuts elsewhere.

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SCHIP Passes Senate; Grassley Wants More Input

Much is being said — some praise and some criticism — of the bipartisan outreach that’s marked the first weeks of the Obama administration. But you won’t convince Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that’s it’s happening everywhere.

Grassley, the highest ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said this week that More…