I take comfort in the fact that things like numbers are considered somewhat important in this debate. Not as important as Rush Limbaugh’s listeners’ phone calls or comity in the Senate, of course. Ezra:
According to a Democratic source, CBO has finished its work and will release the official preliminary score later today. But here are the basic numbers: The bill will cost $940 billion over the first 10 years and reduce the deficit by $130 billion during that period. In the second 10 years — so, 2020 to 2029 — it will reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion. The legislation will cover 32 million Americans, or 95 percent of the legal population.