{"id":695302,"date":"2010-03-18T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.economist.com,21005456"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:22:07","slug":"score-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695302","title":{"rendered":"Score it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EZRA KLEIN <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/03\/cbo_health-care_reform_bill_cu.html\">offers<\/a> a sneak preview of the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s scoring of the Senate&#8217; health care reform bill, which has already passed and which will make up the final health reform law, give or take a reconciliation side-car:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to a Democratic source, CBO has finished its work and will release the official preliminary score later today. But here are the basic numbers: The bill will cost $940 billion over the first 10 years and reduce the deficit by $130 billion during that period. In the second 10 years &#8212; so, 2020 to 2029 &#8212; it will reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion. The legislation will cover 32 million Americans, or 95 percent of the legal population.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t strike the blow for cost control for which some had hoped, but that&#8217;s not a terrible performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EZRA KLEIN offers a sneak preview of the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s scoring of the Senate&#8217; health care reform bill, which has already passed and which will make up the final health reform law, give or take a reconciliation side-car: According to a Democratic source, CBO has finished its work and will release the official preliminary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2USy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}