Congressional Budget Office: health bill to cost $849 billion over 10 years

[PeakARoo]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-health-bill-to-cost-849-billion-report-2009-11-18-174200

[alaskat]

I have some property in Florida.....................!

[NYALB]

So about 1/2 the price of the Iraq war.

[AreWeThereYet]

The CBO hasn't guessed the cost of a program correct yet.

I'll bet it's twice that amount.

[unhappyvoter]

heck, didn't our no new tax pres give about that much to the Wall street & banker "money magicains" during his first few days in office?

[NYALB]

heck, didn't our no new tax pres give about that much to the Wall street & banker "money magicains" during his first few days in office?

Nope, that was the old Prez as a going away gift.

[lynnie]

This is a big deal after all the trillions we created recently?

oh, oops, sorry, dumb question, this is going to people and not to bankers, I guess it is a big deal.

[MilDad]

The 20 year-olds are screwed.  They'll be paying for this for the rest of their lives.

There are many hidden and not so hidden agenda's in this bill.

Buy the vote---The most obvious agenda.  Make's Bush's 2004 Medicare Part D "Buy-the vote" bill look cheap and amateurish.

Support US Treasury market---This is the unspoken agenda. 

[Xenopus]

This program saves infinitely more money than it costs. How about quoting the CBO correctly, you jackasses:

A health-care overhaul proposed by Senate Democrats will cost $849 billion over 10 years, Senate leaders said Wednesday, and slash the deficit by $127 billion over the next decade.

[metaforge]

Even if it passes, by the time it goes into effect in 2013, TS will have HTF.  So it's really not worth thinking about in that regard.