Quote Originally Posted by Tahoe
The CBO is already out with their review of it? Snowe just asked for a formal review the day he unveiled it. When was that? Monday or tuesday?

It appears that the CBO comments are on his latest bill, but just making sure.
The CBO review:http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc...C_Chairman.pdf

Report on it
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009...iews_with.html
It's going to take a while for people to make their way through the details of the Baucus health bill. We've only scratched the surface ourselves. But the most important review--the price tag calculated by the Congressional Budget Office--is already in.

Yesterday afternoon the CBO bean counters tallied up the numbers in the Baucus proposal and worked a little arithmetical magic to put the cost at $774 billion over 10 years, 9.6 percent less than the Montana senator's own estimate of $856 billion.
Who's right? "CBO is the official scorekeeper for Congress, so what it says pretty much goes," NPR's health-policy guru Julie Rovner notes. Still, the Finance Committee fired off a memo late yesterday, saying both numbers are right, with an explanation of the differences here.
Oh, one other thing, the CBO says the Baucus bill would reduce the federal deficit by $49 billion over 10 years, supporting his claim that the plan wouldn't add a dime to the nation's debts. Of course, the proposal is a long way from becoming a law, and the estimates, as the CBO notes, are "subject to substantial uncertainty."
Still, Baucus made good on his goal of bringing in a bill that would cost a lot less than other proposals, though that wasn't enough to garner any support from Republicans at its debut.
A cheaper bill would make the individual insurance mandate for many Americans more costly, though. Remember, Baucus would make people buy coverage, or pay a penalty, if they don't get insurance through their jobs or from the government. Subsidies would be available for some. For whom and in what amounts have a lot to do with how much health overhaul would cost.
As Kaiser Health News' Jordan Rau writes, House Democrats would subsidize insurance purchases for individuals making up to $43,320 a year and families of four bringing in as much as $88,200 a year. But Baucus's bill would cap subsidy eligibility at $32,490 for individuals and $66,150 for a family of four.