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Released: March 19, 2010

Fine-tuning led to health bill’s $940 billion price tag

Source: David M. Herszenhorn, NY Times (Free Registration)

Love it or hate it, one thing that is indisputable about the Democrats’ big health care legislation is that the cost figures are going to come out right where President Obama said he wanted them.

When the president finally came forward with an outline of his own proposal, aimed at bridging differences between the House and Senate versions of the legislation, he said it would have a 10-year price tag of about $950 billion and would reduce federal deficits over that same time period by more than $100 billion.

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