US The Obama administration’s push for a wide-ranging reform of the US health system received a boost on Wednesday when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said the latest legislative proposals would reduce the federal deficit.
Leading Senate Democrats announced that a preliminary CBO study of legislation proposed by Harry Reid, Senate majority leader, calculated that the bill would cost $849bn (€567.5bn, £505bn) and would reduce the federal budget deficit by $127bn in the first 10 years even as it extended coverage to 31m uninsured Americans.
