The CBO scores the Baucus bill and concludes that it would shave $81 billion off the deficit over ten years. Marc's parsing:
Baucus says he can get this bill to the floor. It's a bill that at least one Republican — Sen. Olympia Snowe — could vote for. And no Democrat — or Republican — can argue that, based on the shared reverence for the CBO source, health care will add to the deficit… even though, as the CBO admits, a projection is just a projection.
The Dish 