{"id":2605,"date":"2010-03-18T20:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2010-03-18T20:43:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:43:18","slug":"the_stars_align","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2605","title":{"rendered":"The Stars Align?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was a big day in the final push towards passage of health care legislation. The House released the final text of the reconciliation bill<\/a> and the Congressional Budget Office released a very good score for the bill<\/a>. According to the CBO, the bill will reduce the federal budget deficit by $138 billion over the next decade. No legislation has had this much potential to reduce the deficit since the Clinton years. <\/p>\n

The bill itself contains no surprises. It does have a provision to boost Medicaid payments to physicians, which should help address the access issues I discussed the other day. The public option is probably dead (unless the Senate tries to revive it, which seems unlikely), but I remain hopeful that a future Congress can enact it once people realize that the government can do some things pretty well. <\/p>\n

The final House vote is scheduled for Sunday. Anything can still happen, but this feels like history in the making. <\/p>\n

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