{"id":843,"date":"2010-03-12T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2010-03-12T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:00:19","slug":"hcr-gains-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/hcr-gains-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"HCR Gains Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to the House announcement that the reconciliation bill will not contain Bart \u2018Coat Hanger\u2019 Stupak\u2019s abortion language, and Harry Reid informing Mitch \u2018Filibuzzard\u2019 McConnell that Democrats will pass HCR using reconciliation, HCR enjoyed a couple more positive news items yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n

The numbers from the CBO are in.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"healthcarecost\"<\/a> Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of the Senate-Passed Health Bill<\/p>\n

CBO has just released an estimate of the budgetary effects of the health bill, H.R. 3590, that passed the Senate on December 24. Today\u2019s estimate differs from the estimate for a slightly earlier version of the legislation that we released on December 19 in that it encompasses all of the amendments that were adopted by the Senate, reflects a revised assumption about its enactment date, and incorporates some technical revisions. We and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) prepared this updated estimate in preparation for further consideration of health care legislation. However, the changes we have made do not result in an estimate that differs substantially from the earlier one.<\/p>\n

CBO and JCT now estimate that, on balance, the direct (mandatory) spending and revenue effects of enacting H.R. 3590 as passed by the Senate would yield a net reduction in federal deficits of $118 billion over the 2010\u20132019 period<\/strong>. (Direct spending\u2014as distinguished from discretionary spending\u2014is spending that stems from legislation other than appropriation acts.)  In our earlier estimate, the budgetary impact was a net reduction in deficits of $132 billion.<\/p>\n

… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

The more this bill will save, the more Republicans say it will cost.<\/font><\/p>\n

In addition, one of the Nation\u2019s premiere progressive organizations conducted an email poll of its members.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"passhcr\"<\/a> Here\u2019s a pretty clear indication that the left, whatever its disappointment with the Senate health bill, still overwhelmingly sees passing it as by far the best course of action.<\/p>\n

As I noted here yesterday, MoveOn polled its members to ask whether the organization should support or oppose passing the Senate bill. Check out these results, sent over by a MoveOn official:<\/p>\n

Should MoveOn support or oppose the final health care bill if it looks like the plan recently proposed by President Obama?<\/p>\n

Support 83<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oppose 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not terribly surprising, perhaps, but MoveOn\u2019s membership is comprised of pretty hard-core liberal activists, and this shows pretty clearly that among this crowd, the kill-the-bill camp overwhelmingly lost the argument. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Plumline<\/a>><\/p>\n

Holdouts can no no longer claim that they represent the progressive position, as this clearly demonstrates that progressives overwhelming support passage.  While I respect and admire their idealism, this is not an ideal world.  This bill will save lives and provide a higher plateau, on which to base more reform.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to the House announcement that the reconciliation bill will not contain Bart \u2018Coat Hanger\u2019 Stupak\u2019s abortion language, and Harry Reid informing Mitch \u2018Filibuzzard\u2019 McConnell that Democrats will pass HCR using reconciliation, HCR enjoyed a couple more positive news items yesterday. The numbers from the CBO are in. Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}