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Chris Good

Chris Good - Chris Good is a political reporter for ABC News. He was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic and a reporter for The Hill.

Seven Important Facts In The Baucus Bill's CBO Report

By Chris Good
Sep 17 2009, 9:42 AM ET Comment

Today, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) released the Chairman's mark of his health care reform bill along with a CBO report on the legislation. I've found seven interesting and important issues in the report.

1. It looked like Baucus purposely left himself a small possible giveaway to liberals. His bill in fact saves $49 billion, which could be used to increase subsidies by that amount while still keeping it budget neutral. A little "look, liberals won something"...

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